The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

is sow a Wry, sew a giant, hem • bird with the eyes of a
child, there • eat whisk changes into a lovely princess, •
bird, • frog—every varying in its forma, always new to •
mind that las kept fresh and unfaded withis what yet re-
maims In human natant of that which it last with paradise
—a child-like heart, which though grown up can enjoy the
therms that Fable spreads over the palace as well as the
cottage. The queen, who saw her children is perfect hip-
pies", found that she had not lost what she had been
lutanist as lest ; but that she was yet • child with her
children; and with her they truly en toyed Fable, sal she
with them, andell madams forever lett youtliful Eden.
When l told this to ass, he said, "Now, Isaias, do
you he Fable, and go en telling us ewe ater another,
and we shall be es happy as the Qwesa's

The Lark Dreams.. Aladdin and Si* dlood. Feu jawed
Tiles. A Kam Phibp's Boos. The Adventures of do
Boor. A Day of Peesorre. no Charm Atomiser*.
Ao4•11 A Ms frr nosy teopio. Addoy sad Co.
Kati, Stwoort. Blootwood.

ThM.. Tremors'. The Moan, of as Adlorgool Child.
Groot and Orilla.
A Maoism: Short Moo for Madre*. From the Gerona
of C. Von Scrota. Bower&

When the old year lies dead, cradled in snow per-
chance, and mournfully hymned by hoarse choruses
of struggling winds, we are joyfully called to the
consideration of • resurrection (of the hopes that
blossomed in times past by the appeals to children
which issue thickly from the press lust before Christ-
mas-day. The anxious father, whose heart bas been
in his business during the whole year, who has had
scarcely • thought of his dear ones but how to pro-
vide for them, and who might at the yearly season of
repose be induced to reproach himself for having
thought so little of the moral, spiritual, or intellec-
tual welfare of his children, may rejoice to fled that
the instincts of trade, which bare kept him chained
down to his pursuit for the benefit of his
family, have been no less powerful in their
influence on publishers, and have succeeded in doing
for him what be would never have done foe himself.
He finds that others have eared for his children's
welfare while he has been sleeping. He sees a large
crop of the materials for intellectual culture spinn-
ing up where he had not sown • seed. Ho seknow-
le4cs in fact one of the great features of the day,
that a literature has developed itself which is exclu-
sively devoted to children.
That this is • new feature in the history of society
will be readily Used by those whose recollec-
tions of children's s stretch back as far as our
own. We remember the time when the boys' library
—meaning by that term the works of imagination
which the boy would voluntarily select—was limited
to a couple of works—" Robinson Cruses" and " Sand.
ford and Merton." Now the catalogue might be
swelled by hundreds. The two works we have men-
tioned still keep their position, while a bust of books
which would have tilled the lemons Alexandrine
Library of yore have perished. In the meantime a
class of writers has arisen thoroughly persuaded of the
magnitude and the difficulty of the task of catering
for the tastes of children. These authors have recog-
nised the profundity of the dictum of Wordsworth,
"the child is father of the man." They know that'
they have the very same faculties to deal with in
children that they must appeal to in men. They feel
keenly that the germ of the future man lice in the
child, and that he must be subj.et to a culture the
same in kind, although different in degree, to that
which the man will experience as he moves through',
the world.

The great point, then, in ehildren's.books, is as far
as possible to anticipate this experience, to prepare
the child for what he will hare to encounter in the
world in which he has to mike his way. How is
this to be done? Is it by bringing before him state-
ments of facts in their bsre nakedness? Is it by
narrating to him, circumstantially, long details of
events experienced by men who have lived before
him in the world in which he is about to enter P
Most certainly not. The old proverb, "It is better
to borrow experience than to buy it," is useless,
because no one eon borrow experience. Every one
muse buy it. The greater part of the lesson that is
to be learned from the trials of actual personages, is
lost to the child from his utter want of the know-
ledge that would enable him to understand them.
He cannot be taught in a language which is un•
known to him. }roes the very fact of not having
mingled in the struggles of the world, the child can-
not be made to understand their nature. And for
this very reason it is that genuine biographies of
distinguished men lose for children half their value.

What is the Linen from those facts? This
surely. That cakes meet be proprod for the war-
fare of the world net by latibeadeavoars to make
them acquainted with seas bye the actual battles
that have taken plass, bat by as education, a bring-
ing Mel dm ismer farms that will enable them to
oppose a beid front to say emergency that may pee-
si-ly occur. No system of strategy_ hereever well
studied will make of a moderato sear a arst-rate
general. In the Mae mssner, no amount, however
accurate, of dialealthe that have boss overcome, or
successes that have both sehleved by men of
the past, will seise to essipleto an educa-
tion fit for forming men of the present.
Children's books thee math appeal to those great
principles of their mhos arbisk will be brought into
seise whs.*" go eat bile sibial life. Give them
u kw seal mingke se yea aged% bat do whatever
lies is year power to dowels, fate an Imo which
will make them Invincible wkss they the attacked.
Inspire them with a lofty 'dainties of whatever is
great and noble, with a witherkg -eonismpt for all
that is base and vile, with an overawing therity for
error in all its shapes. Give them, if you can, Ten-
nison's poet's dower, " the hate of hate, the scorn
of acorn, the love oove." To do this you must
work spun the imagination. This faculty underlies
all others in the composition of the human mind. It
exists in all its force in the minds of children. It
bads to elevate all their nobler impulses.
It envelopes ccanamit details with a supenpi-
t teal brightness. We know what it did for °napalms
of tbsethicados el UMW in the middle ages. We see
how entirely the hero was developed oat of the com-
mon man by the imagination acting upon a certain
set of feelings. In the same manner it is possible
to act upon the whole of the feelings. It is possible
to ripen and level T everything great and noble in
the Wad of a child by judicious appeals to his lam-
'imam', and thus to send him into the world armed
against all danger, that he may encounter, although
he hes act made actual acquaintance with any one
of the..

—TheTwin named st the heed of this article are
I mind= fres the scares now issuing from the
peg alsoloisi to meet in tone the tastes of all
pais essiss, ail In prim the pockets of all par-
dons"

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Mire" TIMISDAT.—Ma seam wee tried ia the Sheriff's
Coeset bees pseerday, "Nar* T. Wilkie'," to mover
domes fee a breeds of peonies et wrier. Thu do
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madeetbseiff et Olonailsothire, was the pee-
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the 6th July last. At the able et a that eaussateg up by
the Under Sheriff, the jury Wanted • Mal for plitStiff
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