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192 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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, Rrexch Books Joe Childhen. 1. De Les F...
Je dis cinq au petit Et le met tons lit . Dejachacun d'eux sommeille .
, Chut ! de peur qu ' on ne s ' eveille !" We liave only to add , tliat to every picture tliere Is a little song ,
and that most of these are set to music at the end of this most en _^ chanting * book . Why do not English mothers order it through .
Williams and Norgate , the foreign publishers , in Henrietta Street , Covent Garden ?
M . Jules Delbriicks ' work is a collection of stories , pictures , and poemsby different hands , gathered from a periodical published
, some years since in Paris , under the title of " U Education Nouvelle _, Journal ties JMeres et des Enfants" We have a picture of the ass
and everything for which it serves , down to the drum and leather boots made of its skin . Another plate is full of children ' s games ,
with a colored engraving in the middle of Henri IV . on all fours , and the Dauphin riding " pig-a-back . " The _monarch's peaked
beard and full ruff have a sufficiently whimsical effect under the circumstances . This is followed by the "Cow and the Sheep , " "
Papermaking , " and the " Five Senses , " on which latter plate are two little children who appear to have surreptitiously entered their mother ' s
preserve cupboard , and to have plunged into a _ipok of something very tc Dog like and salts the and Cat , senna " a rh . yme " Little set to Marie music and ; the her " Travellers First Letter , " , " illus the
trated by pictures of every vehicle and every beast of burden ; " Glassmaking ; " . the " Song of the Clock ; " " Silk , " from the worm on a
mulberry leaf to such a flounced pink skirt ; the " Little Organist , " a story of the childhood of Handel ; and finally " Les Aventures
surprenantes de cinq enfants abandonnes , " of which the editor observes : — " Une de nos collaboratrices , mere de charmants enfants et marieea un hominde sciencevoulut bien de transformer les contes de
fees . e Elle ecrivit ' , Les Aventures entreprendre surprenantes de-cinq enfants abandonnes . ' s Cette ur une histoire tres , seri qui e amuse nse etud les e enfants des fait et les me charme rveilleux comme deja ac une com feerie li s , dan rep s le
domaine des sciences et sur les _hypotheses permises a 1 ' imagination p en vue de dant _P avenir la froide . Elle raison ressembl du a savant une pourrait feerie cree n' y par voir la qu fantasi ' un g e rand pure peut , et cepen -etre - .
Quant aux enfants , il-s ' y trouvent un vif plaisir et la lisent et la relisent sans jamais se laisser . " For the restthe _JSiecle and the Presse have given their verdict on
, the book as follows ; and surely , if English children all learn French from a very early age , they may as well be taught with literature
that will amuse them , as plod through dreary lesson books which cultivate neither the imagination nor the heart : —
u _3 _SToiis dirions volontiers des livres destines aux enfants ce que notre grand ' en effet poete rien a dit n ' est des _jiliis jennes difficile filles : _jdIus Helas delicat ! que rien j ' en n ai _' exi vu mourir _j _^ lus de I surete C ' est
d qu 'instinct et meme de divination , qu ' un pareil , livre . L ' ge enfant , c ' est un mystere , c ' est 1 ' avenir , c ' est 1 'inconnu par consequent . Pour savoir au devenu juste
ce qu'il faut lui dii _* e et comment le lui dire , il faut a la fois etre
192 Notices Of Books.
192 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/48/
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