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    356 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    1. Anderserfs Tales for Children. Transl...

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    Legends And Second Lyrics: Volume A Jboo...

    soine of the poems in tliese pages , and we have lmich pleasure in being * enabled to inaugurate tlie opening of the New Year with a

    poem from this gifted writer ' s hand .

    356 Notices Of Books.

    356 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    1. Anderserfs Tales For Children. Transl...

    1 . Anderserfs Tales for Children . Translated by Alfred Wehnert .

    Illustrated . Bell and Daldy . 2 . JBarables from Nature . By Mrs . Alfred Gatty . Illustrated . Bell and

    Daldy . 3 The language Children . ' s Illustrated _Picture JBooli . Bell of the and L 33 ife ald of y . Joseph . Written in simple

    To write a book which shall charm and satisfy the very young , which shall enter into their views and ideas so completely that

    those stern and acute critics , children , are content , and which shall yet have so deep and full a reality that the oldest can still delight

    in it , and the most experienced find a hidden truth and meaning , is an art in which Andersen of all others has succeeded . The humor

    and the pathos of his children ' s stories are so simple that the tiniest little reader who can _bLit just master the words will laugh and cry

    alternately , and yet in these very stories is embodied a bitter penetration of the world's waysand a kindly pity for the blunders ,

    foibles , and errors of humanity , which only a wide and deep knowledge of life could either give or _apjDreciate .

    And they have one _sjDecial charm to us—there is no " information " lurking under the mask of amusementand no useful

    know-, ledge disguised so as to entrap the unwary . But Andersen's tales are known to most children , so we will rather say that the present

    edition is very nicely got irp _^ and prettily illustrated . It will be a most welcome Christmas presentwhether the book comes as an old

    , favorite in a new and handsome dress , or still better , as a yet unopened mine of very certain pleasure and very delightful reading .

    But we have said enough to make many young people long for the volume and let us hope many older ones resolve to give it to them .

    Mrs . Gatty has the art of talking to young people . Her Aunt Judy ' s Tales are _aboiit as pleasant a juvenile book as we know

    , worthy to be ranked beside Miss Edge worth ' s and Miss Martineau ' s children ' s stories . It is sufficient , therefore , to say that the " Parables

    from Nature " are by this favorite authoress ; and when we add that Holxnan Hunt , among other artists , has contributed the illustrations ,

    we give a decided proof that Mrs . Gatty ' s tales have been duly honored in the getting-upand make a very desirable " gift-book . "

    , The " Life of Joseph" is illustrated with sixteen pictures of the events of his life . The author has not injured the pathos and

    grandeur of the story in putting it into very simple language , fit for quite young children .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/68/