For me the backward glance; for me The tales of old simplicity. And this would be my dearest choice: To hear them in the mother's voice.] In the present volume will be found twenty stories from early writers for children, the period being roughly 1790 to 1830, with three later and more sophisticated efforts added. Having so recently made remarks on the character of these old books--in the preface last year to _Old-Fashioned Tales_, a companion volume to this--I have very little to say now, except that I hope the selection will be found to be interesting. If it is not, it is less my fault than that of the authors, who preferred teaching to entertaining, moral improvement to drama. The pendul…
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