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398 something of their father's energy and vigour. With his friendly aid and encouragement they, many of them, went elsewhere to seek their fortunes—two to Australia and two to Dublin; and with native perseverance, with a name that was known wherever books were sold and bought, with their father's connection to support them, and their father's stock to fill their shops, they have not failed to reap something of their father's success.

Thomas Tegg was succeeded in London by his son and late partner, Mr. William Tegg, and under his management the business of the house has assumed a graver and more staid appearance. In the preface to the twelfth edition of Parley's "Tales about Animals," Mr. William Tegg claims the authorship of the whole series published by him under the pseudonyme of "Peter Parley," a nom de plume, we believe, that has covered more names than any other ever adopted by English writers.