A fairy tale written to accompany Doyle's drawings printed in color. "The story is freely and whimsically modeled after the old-fashioned fairy tales [really?]; ... Here are fairies ... some lolling upon leaves in Bacchanalian attitudes ... 'Teasing a Butterfly' is composed of rowdy imps--the very gamins of Fairyland. ... War between egg-stealing elves and the birds is quite in the Pompeiian vein of humor." --review Chi. Tribune 1884-12-15 p9 "Literature", under "Books for the Young" In review of the book more than the story, "the tale of the Princess Niente ... has the flavor of the 'Arabian Nights'. --SF Chronicle 1884-12-14 p6, under "Holiday Juveniles"
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