New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-14

book printed in Philadelphia ia 16, and worth
mentioning If only because is Was printed by
woman. Philadelphia could boast OF two
| female printers, Lydia X. Bailey, from whose
Office this volume came, ana Jane Aitkin,, who
printed the Presbyterian Confession Of Faith.
aud did the work very well. l may stop TO ten
a story which will not be understanding 10 me
photographed reader. | one day picked up
1 copy Of that rather rare and cei tSlniy cur Gus
| book, Luckombe's History oi Printing. saiu-
able as containing full specimens OF the types of
| COlson, a famous London fo'ulder OF ue last
| century a GOOD deal of whose letter came to
4 This country, including the Greek which lnalah
| Thomas OF Worcester, Mas, used IN printing
the first Amer icaD edition of the Greek Iesta-
ment. Taking stock. ii | may Use the express
sion, OF the book, as always oo wDeD get new
! old one, found written m fenlal, Land, upon
| the title page, Jane Aitkin. | had stumbled
upon her coly-the very volume 10 which she
referred Tor guidance Ia making up book forms.
In another place was written, Robert
AItllin." who may have been her husband or
her son.
But have most uneivilly LETT Mrs. Lydia
X. Bailey to herself while paid NY respects
TO her sister printer The book from her press
TO which | have referred above, is /" Mamnips
Stories, read by Herself to her Litile Girl"
and small as it is, ii is cTammed with moral in
structon most forcibly illustrated. One tale
tells bow Geo. "a, instead OF sharing glass OF
lemonade with ms sisters, gTeedlly took II all
What the consequence lie suffered,
we are told, " for his sefishness, Tor the whole
glass OF lemonade gave INN pam IA his
stomach winch he would DOC have telt II he had
only taken proper quantity; ana then he was
forced 10 have the glass filed wth rhg OaID and
magnesia, ana to drink II up Marx the line
Sal csasin which follows: lie would have been
wiling TO let his sisters pditahe Oi taS potion.
4 am not morallst enough To know WHEELER tllis
KIND OF teaching Is the best iol tender souls;
but | confess that j have grave doubts. ! can
not admit, as the result OF my personal observa
lion, that 1t Is always the naughty child who
tails from fence, or Is caught out without an
umbrella Ia tiander- storm. or has the stomach
ache, and is abandoned 10 the tender merciCs
Of Dir. BUlus. THESE Calamdles sometimes
Overtake perfect excellence ia pnai0IeS. Ike
disgusting htt8e boys ANA ois9btdIGnt little girls
no better than Miss. EdgFW0ItI did bet can
not see That they come 10 giie much oItcner
than the paragoDs OF good 81 haylOr, or have
more violent pains IL their stonachs. or crack
tier crowns more frequently. A great many OF
the juvenile books winch / Tcld IN my spring
time Taught contrary doctrine: ana highly
indignant WAS with them htn aiiei 1alher
precocious Authorization found them out.
Anu YET DO We ever read aftcrwaId with the
zest and raptuI" OF chilGhooa I try The books
which half century age charmed me, but
somehow ,hey have lost TIER grace. | Like to
have them. but / confess mat DO not love them
Tor much besides then ex!ernais- lot even the
Arabian Nights % the hist-Tate ANY
Tales y; wlIie as for the Travels OF Captain
Lemuei GulilVei,' what horrible dislusiOn II
meant 10y that bulky libel upon poor human
nature! We DO not think 80 much oI Voyages
and Travels alter We have yoyaEed an0 tIav-
e1led little ourselves, and 30 have come 10 tie
other sl0e OF the NIL OF life with our faces 10
the west. We cannot bring TO our reading
after VIII the same sWcet-mlnded wiling
ness to be amused. We have more or less de-
veloped the critical faculty, and are quite
masters OF TIL sublime arr O. iaut-findlng We
limit the number Of our friends III iealbeTn
coats. sometimes, however, holding more
closely 10 tA.In because the resi- have grown
alien. and are left TO accumulate dust HDOn
the shelves. Yet read away, dear little b. bio
MANAGES of SIX wears or OF tWcivei Yours, per-
haps, is the truest pleasure of perusal, While
we old fellows will poJher over our tohos until
we have not The strength 10 Take them down |
There is an affecting story OF SOnthey winch |
tells how after LIS Intellectual lamp was nearly
extinguished he would stand before ms iOidcd
shelves, and now and tLcn aiullesslY remove u
volume, looking at it listlossly, and then with a
great sigh putting it b ok III its place. There !
are, alas [, no books for second childhOodl