Old Fashioned Tales (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Old Fashioned TalesThe nineteen stories in this volume were written before the days when authors of books for children added to their ambition to please the nursery the wish to be thought clever outside it too, and though it may of course be held that the desire to point a moral - to impart ethical instruction - was quite as pronounced as it ought to be among all these writers, and that they spent at least as much time in being didactic as we moderns in being clever, yet it seems to me that, taking the times into account, to be didactic was permissible, whereas to be consciously clever is still really against the rules.The children of those, days - our great-great-grandfathers - expected didacticism. It was part or the game. The first remark that a grown-up visitor to the nursery then made had a flavour of admonishment of a superior standard of conduct, the last remark, was its twin. The camaraderie, the good fellowship, the equality that now subsists between children and so many of their elders, was then as unknown as electric light. Children were still the immature young of man, they had not been discovered as personalities, temperaments, individuals. Perhaps of late the exploitation following upon this discovery has been a little overdone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.