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Excerpt from The Mirror of Truth, and Other Marvellous Histories
Nobody, I hope, will expect me to be an impartial critic of anything written by the author of this little volume, but, having been its first reader, I may be able to tell other readers something about the general character of its contents. Stories for children may be divided into three distinct classes. There is the story which amuses by the association of incoa gruous ideas, and is written simply to amuse; there is the story with a decided moral, written with the moral constantly in view; and, lastly, there is the story in which an audience of' children would hardly suspect the existence of any definite moral, and yet an intelligent grown up person who happened to be listening, would at once detect an undercurrent of criticism or satire which he would follow with interest, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
