This is a collection of twelve short stories, or as Baum put it "modern tales about modern fairies". The book includes the following stories:

The Box Of Robbers

The Glass Dog

The Queen Of Quok

The Girl Who Owned A Bear

The Enchanted Types

The Laughing Hippopotamus

The Magic Bon Bons

The Capture Of Father Time

The Wonderful Pump

The Dummy That Lived

The King Of The Polar Bears

The Mandarin And The Butterfly