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Rh ixpenny books for children, plendidly bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days, ent him twenty uch volumes, and laid the foundation of a love of books which grew with the child's growth, and did not ceae even when the vacant mind and eye could only gaze in piteous, though blisful imbecility upon the things they loved.'

Many of thee little books have been doubtles long ince forgotten, though they did not deerve uch a fate; but the name of "Goody Two Shoes" is till familiar to the ears of Englih children, though the book itelf may be unknown to thouands of little ones of this later generation.