The experience of some persons inclines them to prefer
compositions in prose, to those in verse, for the exercise
of the infant memory. There is at least no disadvantage in
having a choice of both.
* A COLLIERY TALE, or VILLAGE DISTRESS. 4_d._
The object of this little narrative is, by God’s help, to
draw some profit from a recent calamity, which, in its
immediate pressure upon the limited community through
which it extended, has been most awfully severe.
* VILLAGE ANNALS; or, the Story of HETTY JONES. 9_d._
I have written this story in the simplest style, for the
use of the children in my own neighbourhood; as in all the
little publications of this kind I have hitherto met with,
the language and ideas are far above the comprehension of
many of the classes for whom they are designed.
C. B.
PRETTY LESSONS for GOOD CHILDREN; to which are added, EASY
LESSONS in LATIN. 2_s._
The design of this little work is, by means of easy
rhymes, to attract the attention of young children, and to
impress upon their memories various elementary facts and
moral sentiments which they would not otherwise remember;
for, “What will a child learn sooner than a song?”