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vi timulate the mind to virtue, to promote univeral benevolence, to make mankind happy. Thoe who would know more of the matter may enquire of Mr Newbery.'

This quaint and curious announcement, with its ly humour and erious playfulnes, is characteristic of the house of John Newbery, in the latter part of the lat century; and there is no need to peak here of the fame of the books for children which he publihed; "the philanthropic publiher of St Paul's Churchyard," as Goldmith calls him, conferred inetimable benefits upon thouands of little folk, of both high and low etate. It is aid of Southey when a child that}}

'The well-known publihers of "Goody Two Shoes," "Giles Gingerbread," and other uch delectable hitories, in