The picture commences with a handsome drawing room, which a pretty little girl enters, carrying a book of Fairly Tales. She seats herself in a comfortable arm chair before a spacious fireplace, and after paging over the leaves of the book, falls asleep and dreams of the different tales treated in the book. The good Fairy appears, gradually taking shape from a nebulous mist floating in the air; she waves her magic wand over the little dreamer and causes to pass, in review, visions of the principal scenes of the fairy tales; "Dick Whittington," "Robinson Crusoe," "The Forty Thieves," "Cinderella." "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Blue Beard," and "Red Riding Hood." The good fairy having accomplished her object, vanishes, by gradually dissolving again into space. The maid now enters the room in search of the child found sleeping in the chair. The latter wakes up and hardly realizes her surroundings, rubs her eyes to make certain that she is not really amongst the scenes of her dreams. Of these she tells the maid, who then leads the little girl from the room.
—Charles Urban Trading Co. Catalog