Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Children and the Supernatural—Steele’s Account of a boy’s reading—Characteristics of chap-book “histories”—Folk-lore and legendary settings—_The History of Friar Bacon_—_Fortunatus_—Other chap-book survivals—The Georgian Autolycus—Travellers’ tales—A great chap-book—Books for...
Children and the Supernatural—Steele’s Account of a boy’s reading—Characteristics of chap-book “histories”—Folk-lore and legendary settings—_The History of Friar Bacon_—_Fortuna...
2. CHAPTER IIUnwritten fairy tales—“Child Rowland”—Traditional matter and printed books—_The History of Thomas Hickathrift_—Giants and Dwarfs—Logic and Realism in _Tom Thumb_—Lack of Magic i...
3. CHAPTER IIILocke and the baby Spectator—Gulliver in the nursery—The children’s bookseller—_A Little Pretty Pocket Book_, _The Circle of the Sciences_ and _The Philosophy of Tops and Balls_...
4. CHAPTER IVLocke and Rousseau—A New Conception of Childhood—Rousseau’s Theory of Education—Parent and Tutor, Artificial Experiences, Books, Handicrafts, Attitude to Nature and Humanity—The...
5. CHAPTER VEffects of Rousseau’s teaching in England—Henry Brooke’s _Fool of Quality_, the English _Emile_—Thomas Day: his connection with the Edgeworths—_Sandford and Merton_—_Little Jack...
6. CHAPTER VIFamily authorship—Limitations of the little novel—the English setting in early woodcuts: Thomas and John Bewick—the first school-story: Sarah Fielding’s _Governess_—Stories of c...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe fallacy of Disguise—Qualities of the “great” writers—Mrs. Barbauld’s literary lessons: _Hymns in Prose_—_Evenings at Home_—A new vein of romance—Charles Lamb’s attack on the...
8. CHAPTER VIIILife at Edgeworthstown—Educational adventures—_Practical Education_—First stories—_The Parent’s Assistant_—New elements—“Waste Not, Want Not”: the Geometric plot—“Little plays”—...
9. CHAPTER IX_The Spectator_ on Gardens—“Cones, Globes, and Pyramids”—Good counsels in rhyme—Verse in the Schoolroom—Didactic rhymes—Dr. Watts’s _Divine and Moral Songs_—_Puerilia; or, Amuse...
10. Part 2) runs thus:(a) Legendary ballads in the Collection of 1723 include: “Fair Rosamond”, “King Henry (II) and the Miller of Mansfield”, “Sir Andrew Barton’s Death”, “King Leir and his Three Da...
11. Part II. Ch. iii.—“Does not the Horse and the Ass carry you and your(a) John Newbery died in 1767, when the business was divided into two branches, one under his son Francis, in partnership with T. Carnan, the other under Francis Newbery the nep...
12. PART II.—A SELECTION OF SERIESANCIENT PAINTED GLASS IN ENGLAND. ARCHÆOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES. THE BELLS OF ENGLAND. THE BRASSES OF ENGLAND. THE CASTLES AND WALLED TOWNS OF ENGLAND. CELTIC ART IN PAGAN AN...
13. PART III.—A SELECTION OF WORKS OF FICTIONCLAYHANGER, _8s. net_. HILDA LESSWAYS, _8s. 6d. net_. THESE TWAIN. THE CARD. THE REGENT: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London. THE PRICE OF LOVE. BURIED ALIVE. A MAN FROM T...