TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN;
TOGETHER WITH
SELECT TALES FROM THE ENGLISH.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS FROM NEW DESIGNS
One thick volume, 16mo., neatly bound in cloth gilt.
“Should children and young people be permitted to read fairy tales?” Those who are best qualified by learning, piety, and extensive observation of mankind, to form a correct judgment in the case, reply yes, by all means. The reason is obvious; well chosen fictions of this class improve the heart by delighting the fancy. They strew the path of instruction with the most brilliant flowers of imagination. They approve themselves naturally to all classes of readers. They compose a part of the literature of all nations—and that the most ancient and most rational part. They form a delightful portion of every well informed person’s recollections of childhood. They have become like the classical mythology of Greece and Rome, the subject of allusions throughout all modern literature. Every well read scholar understands these allusions, and every young person should qualify himself to understand them by reading the stories, while the memory is fresh and strong.
LUCY AND ARTHUR;
A BOOK FOR CHILDREN.