Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Parade, 1897: An Illustrated Gift Book for Boys and Girls
For boys and girls are not, I think, quite so silly as pre faces usually regard them; and if any one of them finds any particular item, which will be certainly the editor's own anonymous contribution, very, very stupid - I shall think that he (or she) is most likely right. For if one is not quite an infallible critic before one has left one's 'teens, when is there any hope of being so? Yet they must not be too harsh on the misguided artists and authors, who really did their bestito be interesting, and, as it seems to a mere grown up person, with considerable success.
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