Children's books and reading

by Montrose Jonas Moses

NEW YORK

MITCHELL KENNERLEY

Copyright, 1907, by Mitchell Kennerley

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	[Introductory Note]		[v]
I.	[The Problem]		[1]
II.	[ The Rise of Children’s Books]		[19]
	I.	Horn-books; Chap-books; New England Primer	[20]
	II.	La Fontaine and Perrault	[34]
	III.	Mother Goose	[40]
	IV.	John Newbery; Oliver Goldsmith; Isaiah Thomas	[46]
III.	[ The Old-fashioned Library]		[61]
	I.	The Rousseau Impetus	[61]
	II.	The Edgeworths; Thomas Day; Mrs. Barbauld and Dr. Aikin	[76]
	III.	The Sunday-school: Raikes; Hannah More; Mrs. Trimmer	[101]
	IV.	The Poets: Watts; Jane and Ann Taylor; William Blake	[119]
	V.	Charles and Mary Lamb; the Godwins	[130]
IV.	[ Concerning Now and Then]		[143]
	I.	The English Side	[143]
		English Table
	II.	The American Side	[150]
		American Table
	III.	The Present Situation	[162]
V.	[ The Library and the Book]		[166]
	I.	Children’s Books: Their Classification; their Characteristics	[167]
	II.	The Library, the School, the Home—a Plea for Culture	[180]
	III.	Book-lists and Book-selecting	[189]
	IV.	The Experimental Temptation	[195]
VI.	[Appendix]		[200]
	I.	Book-lists Published by Libraries	[200]
	II.	A List of Selected Books for Children	[208]
	III.	Bibliographical Note	[269]

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

In the course of preparing the material for the following sketch, I was brought into very agreeable relations with many persons whose practical experience in library work proved of exceptional value to me. I wish to take this means of thanking Miss Annie Carroll Moore, Supervisor of Children’s Rooms in the New York Public Library, and Mr. C. G. Leland, Supervisor of School Libraries and member of the New York Board of Education, for every encouragement and assistance.

To Miss Caroline M. Hewins of the Hartford Public Library, Miss Frances Jenkins Olcott of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library, Miss Caroline Burnite of the Cleveland Public Library, the Reverend Joseph McMahon, a member of the Advisory Board of the New York Public Library, Mr. Frederic W. Erb of the Columbia University Library, and to Mr. Tudor Jenks, I am indebted for general advice.

In special lines, I had the privilege of consultation with Mr. Frank Damrosch, Mr. C. Whitney Coombs, and Miss Kate Cohen for music; Miss Emilie Michel for French; and Miss Hedwig Hotopf for German.

The librarians of Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, and the Astor Library have rendered me marked service for which I am grateful.