Masters and Misses_, “Containing the choicest Stories, prettiest Poems
and most diverting Riddles, all wrote by Nurse Lovechild, Mother Goose,
Jacky Nory, Tommy Thumb and other eminent Authors ... also enriched with
curious and lovely Pictures, done by the top Hands, and is sold only at
R. Baldwin’s and S. Crowder’s, Booksellers in Pater Noster Row, London,
and at Benjamin Collins’s in Salisbury for 2d. (Date, on woodcut of a
shilling, 1760).”
(c) A later Miscellany, _Mirth without Mischief_ _c._ 1790, has similar
rhymes.
[Sidenote: p. 67. 1.]
A third edition of _Goody Two-Shoes_ appeared in 1766, in Dutch
flowered boards, “printed for J. Newbery at the Bible and Sun in St.
Paul’s Churchyard. Price 6d.” This was reproduced in facsimile with an
introduction by Charles Welsh, by Griffith and Farran, successors to
Newbery and Harris, in 1881.
Later editions: 1770.—T. Carnan & F. Newbery, Jun.; 1783.—T. Carnan;
1786—Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass. (First Worcester ed.); 1793.—Darton
& Harvey, Gracechurch St.; 1796 (with MS. note by Mr. J. Winter Jones),
32 mo.
Penny chap-book edition (_c._ 1815).—J. Pitts, Seven Dials: “The Toy and
Marble Warehouse”. Many “modernised” editions were printed during the
19th century; the last recorded, in 1884; and G.T.S. was included in
Charlotte Yonge’s _Storehouse of Stories_ (1870).
[Sidenote: p. 68. 1.]
(a) From Carnan’s list, 1787.—“The Valentine’s Gift; or, the whole
History of Valentine’s Day, containing the Way to preserve Truth, Honour
and Integrity unshaken. Very necessary in a trading Nation. Price
sixpence, bound.”
A later edition (Kendrew, Glasgow, _c._ 1814) in the S. Kensington
collection, has significant additions:—
“The Valentine Gift; or, a Plan to enable children _of all Denominations_
to behave with Honour, Integrity and Humanity. To which is added some
Account of old Zigzag, and of the Horn which he used to understand the
Language of Birds, Beasts, Fishes and Insects. The Lord who made thee
made the Creatures also; thou shalt be merciful and kind unto them, for
they are thy fellow Tenants of the Globe.—Zoroaster.”
(b) _The Twelfth Day Gift_ (advertised April 18, 1767). The title-page of
the 1783 edition is as follows:—
“The Twelfth Day Gift; or, the Grand Exhibition, containing a curious
Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse (many of them Originals) which
were delivered to a numerous and polite Audience on the important
Subjects of Religion, Morality, History, Philosophy, Polity, Prudence and
Economy, at the most noble the Marquis of Setstar’s by a Society of young
Gentlemen and Ladies, and registered at their request by their old Friend
Mr. Newbery. With which are intermixed some occasional Reflections and a
Narrative containing the Characters and Behaviour of the several Persons
concerned.
Example draws where Precept fails
And Sermons are less read than Tales.
London: Printed for T. Carnan, Successor to Mr. J. Newbery in St. Paul’s
Church Yard. Price one shilling.”
In an enveloping cautionary story, there is some account of a gigantic
Twelfth Day Cake; but the book consists chiefly of “Pieces”, which
include the story of “Inkle and Yarico”, taken by Addison from Ligon’s
_Account of Barbados (Spectator_, No. 11), “versified by a Lady”,
Addison’s hymns; Pope’s Universal Prayer; “The Progress of Life”, an
Eastern story from the _Rambler_; Parnell’s “Hermit”; the character of
Antiope from Fénélon’s _Telemachus_, translated in 1742, and the King’s
speech to Westmoreland (Henry V. iv. 3), a sign of the revived interest
in Shakespeare.
This is almost a perfect specimen of the Lilliputian Miscellany.
[Sidenote: p. 76. 1.]
From Nichols’s _Literary Anecdotes_ (1812-16):—“It is not perhaps
generally known that to Mr. Griffith Jones, and a brother of his, Mr.
Giles Jones, in conjunction with Mr. John Newbery, the public are
indebted for the origin of those numerous and popular little books for
the amusement and instruction of children which have been ever since
received with universal approbation. The Lilliputian histories of Goody
Two-Shoes, Giles Ginger-bread, Tommy Trip, etc., etc., are remarkable
proofs of the benevolent minds of the projectors of this plan of
instruction, and respectable instances of the accommodation of superior
talents to the feeble intellects of infantine felicity.”
[Sidenote: 2.]
Examples of grammatical faults in _Goody Two-Shoes_:—
Ch. vi.—“She was in Hopes he _would have went_ to the Clerk.”
Ch. viii.—“Therefore she laid very still.”
Part II. Ch. iii.—“Does not the Horse and the Ass carry you and your
Burthens; don’t the Ox plough your Ground?”
John Newbery’s private memoranda show mistakes of the same kind.
[Sidenote: 3.]
(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 nephew, whose widow Elizabeth succeeded
him in 1780. T. Carnan afterwards set up on his own account.
(b) In the curious “appendix” to _Goody Two-Shoes_, there is “an Anecdote
respecting Tom Two-Shoes, communicated by a Gentleman who is now
writing the History of his Life”. This is the chief incident in _Tommy
Two-Shoes_, published at the close of the century by Wilson and Spence of
York.
Imitations only mark the distinction of the Newbery books. Many were
published by John Marshall (_c._ 1780). These include _The Orphan; or,
the Entertaining History of Little Goody Goosecap_; and _The Renowned
History of Primrose Prettyface_, “who, by her Sweetness of Temper and
Love of Learning, was raised from being the Daughter of a poor Cottager,
to great Riches and the Dignity of Lady of the Manor.... London, printed
in the Year when all little Boys and Girls should be good”, etc.
One copy is inscribed “Thos. Preston, March 22nd, 1788”. If this be the
date of purchase, the book may be earlier; but it may be the date of the
child’s birth.
[Sidenote: 4.]
“The Lilliputian Masquerade: recommended to the Perusal of those Sons
and Daughters of Folly, the Frequenters of the Pantheon, Almack’s and
Cornelly’s. Embellished with Cuts, for the Instruction and Amusement of
the rising Generation. Price of a Subscription Ticket, not Two Guineas,
but Two Pence”.—Carnan’s List for 1787.
The Masquerade was “occasioned by the Conclusion of Peace between those
potent Nations the Lilliputians and Tommy-thumbians”, after a quarrel
“concerning an Affair of no less Importance than whether, when a Cat
wagged her Tail, it was a Sign of fair or foul Weather”; and the Peace
had been made by “an old Lady _whose Name was Reason_”.
A later edition in Dutch paper covers (probably after 1800) published by
P. Norbury at Brentford, has no reference to the Pantheon, etc., but is
recommended by the couplet:
“Behind a Mask you’ll something find
To please and to improve the mind.”
[Sidenote: p. 78. 2.]
First Worcester edition: _The Juvenile Biographer_, “containing the
Lives of little Masters and Misses. Including a Variety of Good and Bad
Characters. By a little Biographer.... Worcester, Mass. Printed by Isaiah
Thomas and sold at his Book Store. Sold also by E. Battelle, Boston,
1787.”
[Sidenote: p. 81. 1.]
_Juvenile Correspondence_; “or, Letters designed as Examples of
Epistolary Style, for Children of both Sexes”. By Lucy Aikin. 2nd
Edition. London, for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Paternoster Row, and R.
Hunter, St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1816.
Miss Aikin’s aim was to supply children with “juvenile equivalents of
Gray, Cowper and Lady Mary Wortley Montague”; but the influence of Mrs.
Barbauld adds natural touches not found in “Lilliputian” books.
[Sidenote: p. 82. 1.]
_A Father’s Memoirs of his Child_, by Benjamin Heath Malkin (1806),
contains letters written by a child from his third to his seventh year
(1798-1802).
The little boy, Thomas Williams Malkin, born in October, 1795, died
when he was seven. His father, beginning the _Memoirs_, says: “It is not
intended to run a parallel of his infancy with that of Addison in his
assumed character of Spectator, who ‘threw away his rattle before he was
two months old, and would not make use of his coral until they had taken
away the bells from it’”; but the disclaimer proves that he was conscious
of the parallel.
On his own showing, he had made the child into a “little Philosopher” who
never had so much as a rattle to throw away, whose first toy was a box
of letters. The boy’s letters show a pathetic struggle between natural
simplicity and the artificial system on which he was being trained. Some
are more precocious and pedantic than any in _Juvenile Correspondence_.
The tendency of parents to encourage stilted “epistolary patterns” was
shown earlier in the childish letters of Mrs. Trimmer (See _The Life and
Writings of Mrs. T._)
[Sidenote: p. 83. 2.]
Canning deals with the Newbery books much as Addison does with the
ballads, though Canning’s classical parallels are not serious. He
begins by recommending to novel-readers, instead of “the studies which
usually engross their attention”, the “instructive and entertaining
Histories of Mr. Thomas Thumb, Mr. John Hickathrift and sundry other
celebrated Worthies; a true and faithful account of whose adventures and
atchievements may be had by the Curious and the Public in general, price
two-pence gilt, at Mr. Newbery’s, St. Paul’s Churchyard, and at some
other Gentleman’s whose name I do not now recollect, the _Bouncing B.,
Shoe-Lane_”. (This refers to John Marshall’s sign of the “Great A and
Bouncing B”.)
He identifies “Tom Thumb” with Perrault’s “Little Thumb”, and draws
a parallel between that hero and Ulysses; and between the Ogre and
Polyphemus, comparing the incidents in a mock-heroic vein. There is no
trace of the “Lilliputian” Hickathrift which he mentions.
[Sidenote: p. 84. 1.]
“Jemmy” Catnach, and “Johnny” Pitts of the “Toy and Marble Warehouse”,
were rival printers of ballads and chap-books in Seven Dials.
Catnach’s nursery books include rhymed versions of Perrault’s Tales,
_The Butterfly’s Ball_, _The Tragical Death of an Apple Pie_ (a very old
alphabet rhyme) and various “gifts”. (See Charles Hindley’s _History of
the Catnach Press_, 1886.)
Pitts printed a penny edition of _Goody Two-Shoes_ (_c._ 1815). His
farthing books include _Simple Simon_ and other nursery rhymes.
John Evans, another Seven Dials printer, also published a farthing series
including _Dick Whittington_, _Cock Robin_ and _Mother Hubbard_. (See
Edwin Pearson’s _Banbury Chap-books_, etc., 1890.)
IV
[Sidenote: p. 91. 1.]
Armand Berquin was born in France in 1749. He refused an appointment
as tutor to the son of Louis XVI. Towards the end of his life he was
denounced as a Girondist, and driven into exile. He died in 1791.
Mr. Charles Welsh gives a most interesting account of him in his
introduction to the reprint of _The Looking-Glass for the Mind_,
published by Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, 1885.
[Sidenote: p. 100. 1.]
Mrs. Pilkington, writing “on the Plan of that celebrated work _Les
Veillées du Château_, by Madame de Genlis”, produced _Tales of the
Cottage; or Stories Novel and Amusing for Young Persons_, printed for
Vernor & Hood in the Poultry, and sold by E. Newbery, 1799.
She was the wife of a naval doctor, and became governess to a family
of orphans, for whom she wrote. Other books published for her by E.
Newbery include _Biography for Boys_, 1808; _Biography for Girls_, 1809;
_Marvellous Adventures; or the Vicissitudes of a Cat_, and a translation
(abridged) of Marmontel’s _Contes Moraux_.
[Sidenote: p. 102. 1.]
_Le Théâtre d’Education_ was followed, in England, by Hannah More’s
_Sacred Dramas_ (1782).
Moral plays by the German Rousseauists, Engel and Weisse, were translated
in _The Juvenile Dramatist_ (1801), and _Dramas for Children_, imitated
from the French of L. F. Jauffret, by the Editor of Tabart’s _Popular
Stories_, was printed for M. J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, Skinner
Street, in 1809. The table of contents includes “The Curious Girl;” “The
Dangers of Gossipping”; “The Fib Found Out”; “The Little Coxcomb”.
These educational dramas are no more dramatic than the average moral
tale. They may be regarded as a result of Rousseau’s realism, an effort
on the part of educators to use the dramatic instincts of children to
impress the lesson.
V
[Sidenote: p. 106. 1.]
Thomas Day (1748-1789) was educated at the Charter House and Corpus
Christi College, Oxford. He was an intimate friend of Richard Lovell
Edgeworth, although he had paid his addresses in turn to Honora and
Elizabeth Sneyd, afterwards the second and third Mrs. Edgeworth.
Day was a member of Dr. Darwin’s literary circle at Lichfield, and was
the author of verses and political pamphlets. The third edition of his
poem “The Dying Negro” was dedicated to Jean Jacques Rousseau.
[Sidenote: p. 113. 2.]
_The History of Prince Lee Boo_ (1789) is an early example of this
interest in coloured races. Children’s books of the early nineteenth
century include many stories of the Slave Trade and adventures of
Negroes. Some of the most popular were _The Adventures of Congo_ (1823);
Mary Ann Hedge’s _Samboe; or, the African Boy_ (1823); _Radama; or, the
Enlightened African_ (1824).
[Sidenote: p. 114. 1.]
Third edition, 1759; new version in _The Children’s Miscellany_, 1787;
Children’s chap-book in Dutch flowered boards, _c._ 1789: _The English
Hermit; or, The Adventures of Philip Quarll_, “who was lately discovered
by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, upon an uninhabited Island, where
he has lived above fifty years, without any human assistance, still
continues to reside and will not come away. Adorned with cuts and a Map
of the Island”. London, John Marshall. Price Six Pence bound and gilt.
(Inscribed “Margaret H. Haskoll, (Au. 14th, 1789).”) Other editions:
1795, 1807, 1816.
The 1807 edition, repeated in Newcastle, York and Banbury chap-books, has
cuts attributed to Bewick.
VI
[Sidenote: p. 124. 1.]
_The Life and Adventures of a Fly_, “supposed to have been written by
himself”. Price Sixpence. (E. Newbery’s list, 1789.)
Another edition, with cuts by John Bewick, was printed in 1790 (_Bewick
Collector_).
[Sidenote: p. 125. 2.]
_The Young Misses’ Magazine_ was reviewed in the _Critical Review_, Aug.,
1757. It consists of “Dialogues of a wise Governess with her Pupils”, and
was almost certainly inspired by Miss Fielding’s _Governess_. The studies
of Madame de Beaumont’s pupils, under the names of _Ladi Sensée_, _Ladi
Spirituelle_, _Ladi Tempête_, etc., although they represent types, are
made from life.
Madame de Beaumont also wrote “_Moral Tales_”, designed to counteract
supposed dangers in Richardson’s novels. “The whole,” she says, “is
drawn from the pure source of Nature, which never fails to move the
heart.”
[Sidenote: p. 127. 1.]
Other books by “M. P.” include:
_Anecdotes of a Boarding School_, _Anecdotes of a Little Family_, and
_Letters from a Mother to her Children_.
See below:—“Adventures” of things, by “S. S.”
[Sidenote: p. 131. 1.]
Other stories by Elizabeth Sandham are:
_The Happy Family at Eason House_, 1822; _The History of Elizabeth
Woodville_, 1822; _The Orphan_, n.d. and _The Twin Sisters_, n.d.
[Sidenote: p. 133. 2.]
Other books by Arabella Argus:
_The Adventures of a Donkey_ (1815); _Further Adventures of a Donkey_
(1821); _Ostentation and Liberality_ (1821).
[Sidenote: p. 136. 1.]
(a) On the occasion of a literary dispute at Reynolds’s house, Mrs.
Trimmer, then Miss Kirby, fifteen years old, produced from her pocket a
copy of _Paradise Lost_. Johnson marked his appreciation of the incident
as recorded above.
(b) From 1802 to 1804, Mrs. Trimmer edited _The Guardian of Education_
(published monthly) which exercised a kind of censorship over children’s
books. A reference by Mrs. T. to Perrault’s _Tales_, which she had read
as a child, called forth the criticism of a correspondent who denounced
“Cinderella” in particular as encouraging envy, jealousy, vanity and
other evil passions in children. Mrs. Trimmer’s principles forced her to
agree with this stern moralist.
[Sidenote: p. 140. 2.]
Bird stories by Mr. Kendall include:
_The Crested Wren._ E. Newbery, 1799; _The Swallow_. E. Newbery, 1800;
_The Sparrow and The Canary Bird_ are also mentioned in _The Stories of
Senex; or, Little Histories of Little People_, by the same author.
[Sidenote: p. 141. 2.]
Elizabeth Sandham also wrote:
_The Adventures of a Bullfinch._ J. Harris, 1809.
and _The Perambulations of a Bee and a Butterfly_, 1812.
[Sidenote: p. 144. 2.]
Other “adventures” of things:
_The Adventures of a Silver Penny._ Price 6d. E. Newbery. (Advertised
in the London Chronicle, Dec. 21-29, 1787, “just published”); _The
Adventures of a Doll_, by Mary Mister, 1816; _Memoirs of a Peg Top_, by
S. S. Author of _The Adventures of a Pincushion_. Marshall’s list, _c._
1788.
VII
[Sidenote: p. 155. 1.]
In the preface to _The Adventures of Ulysses_, Lamb says: “This work
is designed as a supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus”; and in a
letter to Manning (1808) he says it is “intended as an introduction to
the reading of Telemachus”.
Fénélon’s _Télémaque_ (1699) which, like his _Fables_ and _Dialogues
des Morts_, was written for his pupil, the grandson of Louis XIV, was
translated into English in 1742. It is a kind of sequel to the fourth
book of the _Odyssey_, describing the further adventures of Telemachus in
search of his father. Fénélon turned his “adventures” into a moral tale,
and Lamb, in his preface, also lays stress on the moral of his book.
[Sidenote: p. 156. 1.]
At the back of the third edition of _Mrs. Leicester’s School_ is a
list of “new books for children”, published by M. J. Godwin, at the
Juvenile Library, Skinner Street. Many of these are school texts, some by
Godwin, writing under his pseudonym of “Edward Baldwin”. Others include
the _Tales from Shakespear_; the _Adventures of Ulysses_; _Poetry for
Children_; _Stories of Old Daniel_; _Dramas for Children_, from the
French of L. F. Jauffret; Mrs. Fenwick’s _Lessons for Children_ (a sequel
to Mrs. Barbauld’s); and Lamb’s _Prince Dorus_.
_Stories of Old Daniel_, which has been attributed to Lamb, has the
alternative title “_or Tales of Wonder and Delight_”. It contains
“Narratives of Foreign Countries and Manners”, and was “designed as an
Introduction to the study of Voyages, Travels and History in General”: a
sufficient proof that Lamb had nothing to do with it.
[Sidenote: p. 161. 2.]
The passage in “Susan Yates” runs thus:
“Sometimes indeed, on a fine dry Sunday, my father would rise early, and
take a walk to the village, just to see how _goodness thrived_, as he
used to say, but he would generally return tired, and the worse for his
walk.”
Mr. Lucas points out that Charles Lamb’s father came from Lincolnshire,
and that the saying was probably his.
[Sidenote: 3.]
Isaac Taylor, the father, was the author of several moral and instructive
tales for youth.
Jefferys Taylor, the brother of Jane and Ann, wrote _Æsop in Rhyme_
(1820); _Harry’s Holiday_ (1822); and other books for children.
[Sidenote: p. 170. 1.]
(a) Some of Mrs. Sherwood’s most popular books were: _Little Henry and
his Bearer_ (her first book) _c._ 1815; _The History of Henry Milner_ (4
parts) 1822-1836; _The Little Woodman and his Dog Cæsar_ (1819).
Many of the chap-books were written for stock illustrations.
(b) Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Sherwood’s sister, was also a prolific writer of
children’s chap-books; but these are undistinguished in style and matter.
(See B. M. collections under title: “Cameron’s Tales”.)
[Sidenote: p. 171. 1.]
The introduction to Mrs. Sherwood’s version of _The Governess_ states
that “the little volume was published before the middle of the last
century, and is said to have been written by a sister of the celebrated
Fielding”.
[Sidenote: p. 172. 1.]
Mary Elliott (afterwards Mrs. Belson), a Quaker, wrote many other tales
for children. Among these are: _Precept and Example_ (_c._ 1812); _The
Modern Goody Two Shoes_ (_c._ 1818); _The Adventures of Thomas Two
Shoes_: “being a sequel to the Modern G. T. S.” (_c._ 1818); _The Rambles
of a Butterfly_ (1819); _Confidential Memoirs, or the Adventures of a
Parrot, a Greyhound, a Cat and a Monkey_ (1821).
Priscilla Wakefield, another Quaker, was the author of _Mental
Improvement_, _The Juvenile Travellers_ and other instructive books.
VIII
[Sidenote: p. 176. 2.]
The Stories in _The Parent’s Assistant_ (1845) are:—
Vol. I. Lazy Laurence; Tarlton; The False Key; The Birth-day Present;
Simple Susan.
Vol. II. The Bracelets; The Little Merchants; Old Poz; The Mimic;
Mademoiselle Panache.
Vol. III. The Basket Woman; The White Pigeon; The Orphans; Waste Not,
Want Not; Forgive and Forget; The Barring Out; or, Party Spirit; Eton
Montem.
A modern edition, with an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, was
published by Macmillan in 1903; and a selection, _Tales from Maria
Edgeworth_, with an introduction by Mr. Austin Dobson (Wells, Gardner,
Darton & Co.), appeared in the same year.
[Sidenote: p. 180. 1.]
_Little Plays_ (1827) contains “The Grinding Organ” (written May, 1808);
“Dumb Andy” (written in 1814) and “The Dame School Holiday”.
“Old Poz” and “Eton Montem” in _The Parent’s Assistant_, are also in
dialogue form.
[Sidenote: 2.]
From the letter to Mrs. Ruxton (March 19, 1803), describing a visit to
Madame de Genlis in Paris:
(a) “... She looked like the full-length picture of my
great-great-grandmother Edgeworth you may have seen in the garret,
very thin and melancholy, but her face not so handsome as my
great-grandmother’s; dark eyes, long sallow cheeks, compressed thin lips,
two or three black ringlets on a high forehead, a cap that Mrs. Grier
might wear,—altogether an appearance of fallen fortunes, worn-out health,
and excessive, but guarded irritability.”
(b) From the same letter:
“... Forgive me, my dear Aunt Mary, you begged me to see her with
favourable eyes, and I went to see her after seeing her ‘Rosière de
Salency’” (a play in the _Théâtre d’Education_) “with the most favourable
disposition, but I could not like her.”
At this time it would seem that the old countess was soured by neglect
and disappointment.
[Sidenote: 3.]
The school stories in the _P. A._ are: “The Bracelets” (an early story
of a girls’ school); “The Barring Out” and “Eton Montem”, both theoretic
studies of schoolboys.
[Sidenote: p. 183. 1.]
The four volumes of _E. L._ contain the following stories:
Vol. I. The Little Dog Trusty; The Cherry Orchard; Frank.
Vol. II. Rosamond; Harry and Lucy.
Vol. III. The Continuation of Frank and part of the Continuation of
Rosamond.
Vol. IV. The Continuation of Rosamond and of Harry and Lucy.
These were followed by _Rosamond: a Sequel to Rosamond in “Early
Lessons”_. 2 vols., 1821; and _Frank: a Sequel to Frank in “Early
Lessons”_. 3 vols, 1822.
[Sidenote: p. 184. 1.]
Dr. Darwin attempted to deal poetically with matter of Science; but his
couplets show all the worst features of eighteenth century verse. The
passage quoted in _Frank_ (E. L., Vol. I.) runs thus:—
“Stay thy soft murmuring waters, gentle rill;
Hush, whispering winds; ye rustling leaves, be still;
Rest, silver butterflies, your quivering wings;
Alight, ye beetles, from your airy rings;
Ye painted moths, your gold-eyed plumage furl,
Bow your wide horns, your spiral trunks uncurl;
Glitter, ye glow-worms, on your mossy beds;
Descend, ye spiders, on your lengthen’d threads;
Slide here, ye horned snails with varnish’d shells;
Ye bee nymphs, listen in your waxen cells.”
[Sidenote: p. 187. 1.]
The lines, repeated to test Harry’s power of attention, are these:—
“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make
an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear coming
up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘What! No soap?’
So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and
there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the
Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little
round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of
catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of
their boots.”
“The Great Panjandrum Himself” was later “pictured” as a schoolmaster in
cap and gown, by Randolph Caldecott.
[Sidenote: p. 192. 1.]
Children’s books recommended by Mr. Edgeworth in his “Address to Mothers”
(E. L. Vol. III):—
“Fabulous Histories”; “Evenings at Home”; Berquin’s “Children’s Friend”;
“Sandford and Merton”; “Little Jack”; “The Children’s Miscellany”; “Bob
the Terrier”; “Dick the Pony”; “The Book of Trades”; “The Looking-glass,
or History of a Young Artist”; “Robinson Crusoe”; “The Travels of
Rolando”; “Mrs. Wakefield on Instinct”; _parts_ of White’s Natural
History of Selborne; and _parts_ of Smellie’s Philosophy of Natural
History.
_The Dog of Knowledge; or Memoirs of Bob the Spotted Terrier_ (1801) and
_Dick the Pony_ were by the same author.
_The Book of Trades_ is a modern equivalent of _Dives Pragmaticus_ (see
above—Introd:)
_The Looking-glass_, etc., by “Theo Marcliffe”, is the story of the early
life of Mulready the painter, written by Godwin under this pseudonym.
IX
[Sidenote: p. 195. 2.]
A revised and abridged edition of Bunyan’s “Rhimes” appeared in 1701,
under the title: _A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Temporal Things
Spiritualised_.
A ninth edition was published in 1724 under the new title _Divine
Emblems; or, Temporal Things Spiritualised_.
[Sidenote: 3.]
_A Little Book for Little Children_, “wherein are set down in a plain
and pleasant Way, Directions for Spelling and other remarkable Matters.
Adorned with Cuts. By T. W.” (Thomas White).
London, printed for G. O. and sold at the King in Little Britain.
[Sidenote: p. 196. 1.]
_The Child’s Week’s Work_; “or, A Little Book so nicely suited to the
Genius and Capacity of a little Child, both for Matter and Method, that
it will infallibly allure and lead him into a Way of Reading, with all
the Ease and Expedition that can be desired.” By William Ronksley.
London, printed for G. Conyers and J. Richardson in Little Britain, 1712.
[Sidenote: p. 201. 2.]
R. L. Stevenson quotes this rhyme in the lines “To Minnie” (_A Child’s
Garden of Verses_, pp. 130-1):
“Our phantom voices haunt the air
As we were still at play;
And I can hear them call and say:
‘_How far is it to Babylon?_’
“Ah far enough, my dear,
Far, far enough from here—
Yet you have farther gone!
‘_Can I get there by candlelight?_’
“So goes the old refrain.
I do not know—perchance you might—
But only children hear it right,
Ah, never to return again!
“The eternal dawn, beyond a doubt,
Shall break on hill and plain,
And put all stars and candles out,
Ere we be young again.”
[Sidenote: p. 206. 2.]
Few of the themes are original. Two by Adelaide O’Keefe, “The Boys and
the Apple Tree” and “The Vine”, are verse readings of stories in _The
Looking Glass for the Mind_. So also is “The Two Gardens” by Ann Taylor.
[Sidenote: p. 208. 1.]
_Poetry for Children_ was praised in the _Monthly Review_ for Jan., 1811,
but soon went out of print. The original edition was lost sight of until
1877, when it was sent from Australia “a courteous and most welcome
gift from the Hon. William Sandover” to Mr. R. H. Shepherd. (See the
Introduction to Mr. Shepherd’s reprint.—Chatto & Windus, 1878.)
In the meantime, twenty-two of the pieces had been preserved in a _First
Book of Poetry_ printed by W. F. Mylius, a master at Christ’s Hospital,
“For the Use of Schools. Intended as Reading Lessons for the Younger
Classes.” This was mentioned in the _Monthly Review_ for April, 1811.
[Sidenote: p. 209. 2.]
The following poems were reprinted in the 1818 edition of Lamb’s Works:—
“To a River in which a Child was Drowned”; “The Three Friends”; “Queen
Oriana’s Dream”.
[Sidenote: p. 216. 1.]
Lamb says that Martin Burney read _Clarissa_ in snatches at a book-stall,
until discouraged by the stall-keeper. He adds: “A quaint poetess of
our day has moralised upon this subject in two very touching but homely
stanzas”.
[Sidenote: p. 219. 1.]
(a) _The Peacock “At Home.”_ “A Sequel to the Butterfly’s Ball. Written
by a Lady and illustrated with elegant engravings”. Harris, successor to
E. Newbery, 1807.
(b) _The Lion’s Masquerade._ “A Sequel to the Peacock ‘At Home’. Written
by a Lady.” London, J. Harris, etc., 1807.
(c) _The Elephant’s Ball and Grand Fête-Champêtre_: Intended as a
Companion to those much admired Pieces, The Butterfly’s Ball and The
Peacock “At Home”. By W. B. London, J. Harris, etc., 1807.
Facsimile reprints by Charles Welsh, 1883.
[Sidenote: p. 221. 1.]
(a) _The Daisy_, “Adapted to the Ideas of Children from four to eight
years old”—was illustrated with 30 copperplate engravings.
(b) _The Cowslip_ was announced as “By the Author of that much admired
little work entitled The Daisy”. Both were published by Harris, and
reprinted with introductions by Charles Welsh in 1885.
(c) Imitations were:—
_The Snowdrop; or, Poetry for Henry and Emily’s Library._ By a Lady.
Harris, 1823 (3rd edition); and _The Crocus; or, Useful Hints for
Children_, “being Original Poems on Popular and Familiar Subjects”.
London, R. Harrild, 1816.
[Sidenote: p. 223. 1.]
_The Journey of Goody Flitch and her Cow_, a variant of _Old Mother
Hubbard_, 1817.
[Sidenote: 2.]
_Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats_, “A Humorous Tale.
Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety. Embellished with sixteen
coloured Engravings. Price one shilling”. London, Dean & Munday, 1823.
The rhyme was reprinted by Ruskin, who admired its strong rhythm.
[Sidenote: 3.]
_The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women_, “Illustrated by as many
Engravings, exhibiting their principal Eccentricities and Amusements”.
London, Harris & Son, 1821.
[Sidenote: 4.]
_Readings on Poetry._ By Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth
(London, 1816), followed the plan used with the Edgeworth children. No
word or phrase is allowed to pass without explanation.
This may have inspired the author of _The Young Reviewers; or, the Poems
Dissected_. London, William Darton, 1821.
APPENDIX B
_Chronological List of Children’s Books from 1700 to 1825_
The List shows only books studied in the foregoing chapters. It includes
no undated chap-books.
[Sidenote: A.D. 1700.]
Anon. The History of the Two Children in the Wood.
[Sidenote: 1701.]
Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Temporal Things
Spiritualised.
[Sidenote: 1702.]
White, Thomas. A Little Book for Little Children (12th edn.).
[Sidenote: 1708.]
Chap-books mentioned in _The Weekly Comedy_ (Jan. 22): Jack and
the Gyants, Tom Thumb, etc.
[Sidenote: 1709.]
Romances given in Steele’s paper (Tatler, Nov. 15-17): Don
Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, The Seven Champions, etc.
[Sidenote: 1712.]
Anon. The Child’s Week’s Work.
[Sidenote: 1715.]
Watts, Isaac. Divine Songs for Children.
[Sidenote: 1727.]
Anon. The Hermit; or, Philip Quarll.
[Sidenote: 1738.]
Wright, J. Spiritual Songs for Children. (2nd edn.)
[Sidenote: 1743.]
Anon. The Little Master’s Miscellany.
[Sidenote: 1744.]
Anon. A Little Pretty Pocket Book.
Anon. Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book. 2 vols.
[Sidenote: 1745-66.]
Anon. The Circle of the Sciences.
[Sidenote: 1746.]
Anon. The Travels of Tom Thumb.
[Sidenote: 1749.]
Fielding, Sarah. The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy
(2nd edn.).
[Sidenote: 1751.]
Anon. The Lilliputian Magazine.
Marchant, John. Puerilia; or, Amusements for the Young.
[Sidenote: 1752.]
Anon. A Pretty Book of Pictures for Little Masters and Misses;
or, Tommy Trip’s History of Beasts and Birds.
[Sidenote: 1760.]
Anon. The Top Book of All for Little Masters and Misses.
[Sidenote: 1760-65.]
Anon. Mother Goose’s Melody; or, Sonnets for the Cradle.
[Sidenote: 1761.]
The Philosophy of Tops and Balls. (Adv. Apr. 9.)
[Sidenote: 1765.]
Anon. The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread: a Little Boy
who lived upon Learning.
Anon. The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes.
[Sidenote: 1767.]
Anon. The Twelfth Day Gift: or, the Grand Exhibition.
[Sidenote: 1768.]
Anon. Tom Thumb’s Folio.
[Sidenote: 1770.]
Anon. The Letters between Master Tommy and Miss Nancy Goodwill.
Anon. Robin Goodfellow; “A Fairy Tale written by A Fairy”.
[Sidenote: 1777.]
Anon. The History of the Enchanted Castle; or, The Prettiest
Book for Children.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1777.]
Anon. Juvenile Correspondence; or, Letters suited to Children
from four to above ten years of age.
[Sidenote: 1780.]
Anon. The Poetical Flower Basket.
Anon. The Governess; or, Evening Amusements at a Boarding
School.
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. Easy Lessons. Hymns in Prose for
Children.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1780.]
Cooper, W. D. The Oriental Moralist.
[Sidenote: 1781.]
Anon. Juvenile Trials.
[Sidenote: 1782.]
Anon. The History of King Arthur (from Dryden).
Anon. Oriental Tales: The Ruby Heart and The Enchanted Mirror.
More, Hannah. Sacred Dramas.
[Sidenote: 1783.]
Day, Thomas. The History of Sandford and Merton, Vol. I.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1783.]
Fenn, Eleanor (Lady Fenn). The Juvenile Tatler.
[Sidenote: 1786.]
Day, Thomas. Sandford and Merton, Vol. II.
Trimmer, Sarah. Fabulous Histories.
[Sidenote: 1787.]
Anon. The Adventures of a Silver Penny.
Anon. The Juvenile Biographer (New England edn.).
Anon. The Lilliputian Masquerade.
Day, Thomas. The Children’s Miscellany.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1787.]
Anon. The Adventures of a Silver Threepence.
[Sidenote: 1788.]
Kilner, Dorothy (“M. P.”). The Life and Perambulation of a
Mouse.
The Village School.
Kilner, Mary Jane (“S. S.”). The Adventures of a Pincushion.
Jemima Placid; or, The Advantage of Good-Nature.
Memoirs of a Peg Top.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1788.]
Anon. The Renowned History of Primrose Prettyface.
[Sidenote: 1789.]
Anon. The Adventures of Philip Quarll (adapted).
Anon. The History of Prince Lee Boo.
Anon. The Life and Adventures of a Fly.
Cooper, W. D. Blossoms of Morality.
Day, Thomas. Sandford and Merton. Vol. III.
Fenn, Eleanor (Lady F.). The Fairy Spectator.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1789.]
Tom Thumb’s Exhibition.
[Sidenote: 1790.]
Anon. Mirth without Mischief.
Kilner, Dorothy (?). Anecdotes of a Boarding School.
[Sidenote: 1791.]
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Original Stories from Real Life.
[Sidenote: 1792-96.]
Aikin, A. L. and J. (Mrs. Barbauld and Dr. Aikin). Evenings at
Home. 6 vols.
[Sidenote: 1794-5.]
Wakefield, Priscilla. Mental Improvement. 2 vols.
[Sidenote: 1796-1800.]
Edgeworth, Maria. The Parents’ Assistant; or, Stories for
Children.
[Sidenote: 1798.]
Kendall, Edward Augustus. Keeper’s Travels in Search of his
Master.
[Sidenote: 1799.]
Kendall, E. A. The Crested Wren.
Pilkington, Mrs. M. S. Biography for Girls. Tales of the
Cottage.
[Sidenote: 1800.]
Kendall, E. A. The Stories of Senex; or, Little Histories of
Little People.
The Swallow.
Pilkington, M. S. The Asiatic Princess.
Porter, Jane. The Two Princes of Persia.
Sandham, Elizabeth. The Boys’ School.
[Sidenote: 1801.]
Anon. The Dog of Knowledge; or, Memoirs of Bob, the Spotted
Terrier.
Edgeworth, Maria. Early Lessons. 2 vols. Moral Tales.
Wakefield, Priscilla. The Juvenile Travellers.
[Sidenote: 1802.]
Pilkington, M. S. Marvellous Adventures; or, the Vicissitudes
of a Cat.
[Sidenote: 1804.]
Taylor, Ann and Jane; and O’Keefe, Adelaide. Original Poems for
Infant Minds.
[Sidenote: 1805.]
Anon. Songs for the Nursery.
Lamb, Charles. The King and Queen of Hearts.
[Sidenote: 1806.]
Taylor, A. & J.; and O’Keefe, A. Rhymes for the Nursery.
[Sidenote: 1807.]
Anon. The Children in the Wood (moralised).
Anon. Robin Hood (moralised).
B., W. The Elephant’s Ball.
Dorset, Mrs. C. A. The Lion’s Masquerade. The Peacock “At Home”.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespear.
Roscoe, William. The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s
Feast.
Turner, Elizabeth. The Daisy; or, Cautionary Stories in Verse.
[Sidenote: 1808.]
Anon. The Academy; or, a Picture of Youth.
Anon. Stories of Old Daniel.
Lamb, Charles. The Adventures of Ulysses.
Pilkington, M. S. Biography for Boys.
Taylor, Ann. The Wedding among the Flowers.
[Sidenote: 1809.]
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Mrs. Leicester’s School. Poetry for
Children.
Pilkington, M. S. Biography for Girls.
Sandham, Elizabeth. The Adventures of a Bullfinch.
The Adventures of Poor Puss.
[Sidenote: 1810.]
Argus, Arabella. The Juvenile Spectator.
Ritson (ed.). Gammer Gurton’s Garland.
[Sidenote: 1811.]
Anon. Felissa; or, The Life and Opinions of a Kitten of
Sentiment.
Lamb, Charles. Prince Dorus.
Turner, Elizabeth. The Cowslip; or, More Cautionary Stories in
Verse.
[Sidenote: 1812.]
Elliott, Mary (formerly Belson). Precept and Example.
Sandham, Elizabeth. The Perambulations of a Bee and a Butterfly.
[Sidenote: 1815.]
Argus, Arabella. The Adventures of a Donkey.
Edgeworth, Maria. Early Lessons. Vols. III and IV.
[Sidenote: _c._ 1815.]
Sherwood, M. M. Little Henry and his Bearer.
[Sidenote: 1816.]
Aikin, Lucy. Juvenile Correspondence.
Anon. The Peacock and Parrot on their Tour to discover the
Author of The Peacock “At Home”.
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell and Maria. Readings on Poetry.
Elliott, Mary. The Orphan Boy; or, A Journey to Bath.
Mister, Mary. The Adventures of a Doll.
[Sidenote: 1818.]
Elliott, Mary. The Modern Goody Two Shoes. The Adventures of
Thomas Two Shoes.
Sandham, Elizabeth. The School-fellows.
Sherwood, Martha Mary. The History of the Fairchild Family.
Taylor, Jefferys. Harry’s Holiday.
[Sidenote: 1819.]
Elliott, Mary. The Rambles of a Butterfly.
Sherwood, M. M. The Little Woodman and His Dog Cæsar.
[Sidenote: 1820.]
Sherwood, M. M. (ed.). The Governess.
[Sidenote: 1820.]
Taylor, Jefferys. Æsop in Rhyme.
[Sidenote: 1821.]
Anon. The Sixteen Wonderful Old Women.
Anon. The Young Reviewers; or, The Poems Dissected.
Argus, Arabella. Further Adventures of a Donkey.
Ostentation and Liberality.
Edgeworth, Maria. Rosamond, A Sequel to Rosamond in Early
Lessons.
Elliott, Mary. Confidential Memoirs; or, the Adventures of a
Parrot, a Greyhound, a Cat and a Monkey.
Hack, Maria. Harry Beaufoy; or, The Pupil of Nature.
Sherwood, M. M. The Infant’s Progress.
[Sidenote: 1822.]
Edgeworth, Maria. Frank. A sequel to Frank, in Early Lessons.
Sandham, Elizabeth. The Happy Family at Eason House. The
History of Elizabeth Woodville.
[Sidenote: 1823.]
Anon. The Adventures of Congo.
Anon. The Court of Oberon; or, The Temple of the Fairies.
Hedge, Mary Ann. Samboe; or, the African Boy.
Lady of Ninety, A. Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful
Cats.
[Sidenote: 1824.]
Hedge, Mary Ann. Radama; or, the Enlightened African.
Taylor, Jane. The Contributions of Q. Q. 2 vols.
Taylor, Jefferys. The Little Historians.
[Sidenote: 1825.]
Edgeworth, Maria. Harry and Lucy “concluded; being the last
part of Early Lessons”. 4 vols.
_Foreign Books and Translations_
[Sidenote: 1707.]
D’Aulnoy, Madame la Comtesse. Collected Works.
[Sidenote: 1708.]
The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments; Translated from the French
of M. Galland.
[Sidenote: 1708.]
Perrault, Charles. Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé, avec
des Moralités. “Par le fils de Monsieur Perrault de l’Academie
François”. 1st edn. 1697.
[Sidenote: 1722.]
Æsop. Fables. Croxall’s edition.
[Sidenote: 1729.]
Perrault, Charles. First English translation by R. Samber.
[Sidenote: 1742.]
Fénélon, François de Salignac de la Mothe. Adventures of
Telemachus. 2 vols. 1st French edn. 1699.
[Sidenote: 1757.]
Beaumont, Jeanne Marie Le Prince de. Le Magazin des Enfans. 2nd
edn. 2 vols. Translated as the Young Misses’ Magazine. (Adv.
Critical Review, Aug.)
[Sidenote: 1763.]
Marmontel, Jean François. Moral Tales. Translated by Miss R.
Roberts.
[Sidenote: 1775.]
Beaumont, J. M. Le P. de. Moral Tales. Trans. Anon. 2 vols.
[Sidenote: 1779.]
Genlis, Madame la Comtesse de. Le Théâtre d’Education.
[Sidenote: 1782.]
Genlis, Madame de. Adèle et Théodore.
[Sidenote: 1782-3.]
Berquin, Armand. L’Ami des Enfans.
[Sidenote: 1783.]
Berquin, Armand. The Children’s Friend. Translated by M. A.
Meilan. 24 vols.
Epinay, Madame d’. Les Conversations d’Emilie.
Genlis, Madame de. Adelaide and Théodore. Trans. Anon. 3 vols.
[Sidenote: 1784.]
Genlis, Madame de. Les Veillées du Château.
[Sidenote: 1786.]
Marmontel, J. F. Contes Moraux collected.
[Sidenote: 1787.]
Berquin, Armand. The Looking-Glass for the Mind. (Selections
from L’Ami des Enfans. ed. Cooper.)
Epinay, Madame d’. Conversations of Emily. Trans. Anon.
[Sidenote: 1788.]
Campe, J. H. Robinson der Jüngere. Trans. as The New Robinson
Crusoe.
[Sidenote: 1791.]
Berquin, Armand. The History of Little Grandison. Trans. Anon.
[Sidenote: 1792.]
Salzmann, C. G. Elements of Morality. Trans. from the German.
[Sidenote: 1801.]
Engel, J. and Weisse, F. The Juvenile Dramatist. (Educational
plays, trans. Anon.)
Genlis, Madame de. Le Petit La Bruyère translated as La Bruyère
the Less.
[Sidenote: 1809.]
Jauffret, L. F. Dramas for Children. “Imitated from the French
of L. F. J. By the Editor of Tabart’s Popular Stories”.
[Sidenote: 1823.]
Grimm, J. L. C. and W. C. Popular Stories.
Other children’s books of the 18th and 19th centuries are given in Mr. F.
J. Harvey Darton’s bibliography: Cambs. Hist. of Eng. Lit. Vol. XI, Chap.
XVI.
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