Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
Stokes. 1.50
Selections from the writings of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Lamb, Peter
Parley, and others.
"The children come, the children go;
To-day grows quickly yesterday;
And we, who quiz quaint fashions so,
We soon shall seem as quaint as they."
The children of those days--our great-great-grandfathers--expected
didacticism. It was part of the game.... In the present collection
there is, I think, no example either of condescension or
showing-off--the two principal faults of books for children. All the
authors seem to me to be simple and single-minded: they wished
above all to be interesting.--_Introduction._
McINTYRE, M.A.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone.
Appleton. .40
Written in accordance with modern views of science, and
calculated to give children a good idea of prehistoric man and
his ways. What is more, the story is sufficiently interesting to
attract them.--_The Athenaeum._
OTIS, JAMES (Pseudonym of J.O. Kaler).
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus.
Harper. .60
Little freckled Toby runs away and joins a circus, where he makes a (p. 91)
friend of Mr. Stubbs, an old monkey.
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