A Mother's List of Books for Children

Name: A Mother's List of Books for Children
Author: Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography

The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader
     as an introduction to the study of Shakspeare, for which purpose
     his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in;
     ... words introduced into our language since his time have been
     as far as possible avoided.... What these Tales shall have been
     to the _young_ readers, that and much more it is the writers'
     wish that the true Plays of Shakspeare may prove to them in older
     years--enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a
     withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of
     all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions, to teach courtesy,
     benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these
     virtues, his pages are full.--_Preface._

     I have done Othello and Macbeth, and mean to do all the
     tragedies. I think it will be popular among the little people,
     besides money.
                                        LAMB.

This edition of an English classic contains engraved portraits of
Charles and Mary Lamb, after those in the National Portrait Gallery,
and twenty full-page illustrations in color.


MACAULAY, T.B.
               Lays of Ancient Rome.
               Illustrated by J.R. Weguelin.
               Longmans. 1.25

This attractive edition of Macaulay's famous poems contains, in    (p. 155)
addition, Ivry and The Armada.


NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
               Heart of Oak Books. Volume V. Masterpieces of Literature.
               Heath. .50

     To make good reading more attractive than bad, to give right
     direction to the choice, the growing intelligence of the child
     should be nourished with selected portions of the best
     literature, the virtue of which has been approved by long
     consent.--_Preface._


WIGGIN, K.D. (S.) and N.A. SMITH (Editors).
               Golden Numbers.
               Doubleday. 2.00

Mrs. Wiggin tells us that she and her sister have searched the pages
of the great English-speaking poets to find verses that children will
love. The quest has been successful, for the collection gives us full
measure of that which is among the best in English poetry. The
selections are arranged under headings, such as The World Beautiful,
For Home and Country, and In Merry Mood. One division is devoted to
Christmas songs and carols.



RELIGION AND ETHICS

     Oh books!... Ye are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
     the soldiers of the Church, with which to quench all the fiery
     darts of the wicked.
                                        RICHARD DE BURY.


GILLIE, R.C.                                                       (p. 156)
               The Story of Stories.
               Macmillan. 1.25

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A Mother's List of Books for ChildrenArnold, Gertrude Weld

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A Mother's List of Books for Children

Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography

The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader
     as an introduction to the study of Shakspeare, for which purpose
     his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in;
     ... words introduced into our language since his time have been
     as far as possible avoided.... What these Tales shall have been
     to the _young_ readers, that and much more it is the writers'
     wish that the true Plays of Shakspeare may prove to them in older
     years--enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a
     withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of
     all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions, to teach courtesy,
     benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these
     virtues, his pages are full.--_Preface._

     I have done Othello and Macbeth, and mean to do all the
     tragedies. I think it will be popular among the little people,
     besides money.
                                        LAMB.

This edition of an English classic contains engraved portraits of
Charles and Mary Lamb, after those in the National Portrait Gallery,
and twenty full-page illustrations in color.


MACAULAY, T.B.
               Lays of Ancient Rome.
               Illustrated by J.R. Weguelin.
               Longmans. 1.25

This attractive edition of Macaulay's famous poems contains, in    (p. 155)
addition, Ivry and The Armada.


NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
               Heart of Oak Books. Volume V. Masterpieces of Literature.
               Heath. .50

     To make good reading more attractive than bad, to give right
     direction to the choice, the growing intelligence of the child
     should be nourished with selected portions of the best
     literature, the virtue of which has been approved by long
     consent.--_Preface._


WIGGIN, K.D. (S.) and N.A. SMITH (Editors).
               Golden Numbers.
               Doubleday. 2.00

Mrs. Wiggin tells us that she and her sister have searched the pages
of the great English-speaking poets to find verses that children will
love. The quest has been successful, for the collection gives us full
measure of that which is among the best in English poetry. The
selections are arranged under headings, such as The World Beautiful,
For Home and Country, and In Merry Mood. One division is devoted to
Christmas songs and carols.



RELIGION AND ETHICS

     Oh books!... Ye are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
     the soldiers of the Church, with which to quench all the fiery
     darts of the wicked.
                                        RICHARD DE BURY.


GILLIE, R.C.                                                       (p. 156)
               The Story of Stories.
               Macmillan. 1.25

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Mother's List of Books for Children

A Mother's List of Books for Children

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