New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-15

feel they should like the book viii make them
dislike T. Others VIII 20 on couscientiously try
Ing 70 Ike an uuiaterestug book ard feeling that
they are wrong net 10 Ike H. We neglect 70 study
hooks I'm o. 'lg ., slii.ceatly think Many
- N3t,lrA ao9t chlldren are perfectly delight
49, - e4ll1s wni.e children care nothing for them
We should never let children read books which
give the careers OF really bad. vicious children The
cascinating. The beautifuI has absoii9tely no
grotesque Children love the spectacular. the
sEs story e: his two Su ehIsa He asked hs
20 ana glrl 20 tell him what was the funniest
Lllng tney ever saw or heard OF n their lives The
81 saia u was story q n bull that chased a
ne fence She laughed !nlmoderately AZ the story
Inc BOY didn't want 20 tel. but finally confessed
ne NE was When he hit mother right on the nose
one might think the children were little mon
STEERS but IN reality Il the unusual. the start
ir15resse4 fbe-, ire, ~ -. tr; 80 @ =, S-l
portion. L overshadowed the painful or cruel n
the incidents It made the two things seem eX-
,Ghiidrez VIII feast on This ,sor, q thing, in
aren IS the that depicts simple. plain. natural
The child in the normal should he the aim OF
Juvenile literature. Little Women is a splendid
adults alike. In fact adults IKE. il SO vel thai
have sometimes wondered II children really liked II
toned % a Sri who are id i h6t ike '-' never cues
on HISTORY READING.
within the last dozen years We have had
influx OF histories for children, and the characters
OF history have been made 70 live and breathe in
way never knew them IN my childhood child
VINO has got his first taste OF American history
from such book as Colonial Children for in
stance will have a totally different feeling toward
tory came IN the form OF a lesson TO be learned.
History will ever after present itself 10 his mind
with the present But We should be sure that the
history IN these books is al correct az the chill
cren are taking what they read fer the truth
Il have been disappointed IN some Of the recent
nature books IheS DO not seem 20 ne 10 sustain
which animals and plants are personihed teach
small children love repetition. If you begin story
about q little girl that wore red rbbon you
thenceforth leave out the red ribbon at your peril
You didn't say the red ribbon they viii insist.
don't know the psychology Of this quality OF me
small children must be full OF repetition 70 please
las 20 tho Bible. I don't feel that my own
studies have made authority on lis suitable
ity ,or children haze never quite seen my own
way place the bible as Il stanus IN inc HaHds
az children. although its stories and its stately
- haze been "a Their Overwhelmed by the siren
,olis criticism % which Little Lord Fauntieroy has
critics for whom had a high regard. have won
oered when l heard II denounced as mawkish ana
dren in their childhood, FOR certainly they could
repeat II almost by heart. ihey W9l.0 hare
sronsliis go- ra,taT7inating the minds of per-
time helped In the library Of Il settlement tor
and he ch,dren vere so anxious Tor more that
spoke TO a friend. who sent dozen copies, ana
shelves [ can't help feeling that the criticism OF
'Fauntleroy' has been n little too strong ~ ne
love r. Il is pure it's Ideals are high. and can't
that It ever harmed child -. g.
fishing touch to the Feunteroy symposium when zen
es Little Lord Faunteroy.