This little book for little girls has all the quiet charm of Miss Jewett's books for older people. The author has a great gift for making the fine and beautiful things which lie at the heart of every-day life stand forth in their true colors, and making simple pleasures seem very pleasant.
Prentice And Power.
Lucas, E.V. (Editor).
Old-Fashioned Tales.
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.