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Rh The quetion of the authorhip of the book is till an unettled one. It was at one time commonly attributed to Oliver Goldmith, and no one who reads the book will confider it to be unworthy of the poet's pen. We find, however, in Nichol's Literary Anecdotes, that

'It is not perhaps generally known that to Mr Griffith Jones, and a brother of his, Mr Giles Jones, in conjunction with Mr John Newbery, the public are indebted for the origin of thoe numerous and popular little books for the amuement and intruction of children which have been ever ince received with univeral approbation. The Lilliputian hitories of Goody Two Shoes, Giles Gingerbread, Tommy Trip, &c., &c., are remarkable proofs of the benevolent minds of the projectors of this plan of