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Rh having written it hould be acribed either to the one or to the other: the following remarks, which are mainly taken from an article I contributed to the Athenæum in April 1881, are offered imply as peculations which may not be without interet to lovers of the little book. They may, perhaps, how that there is ome reaon for attributing the work to Oliver Goldmith, although, of coure, it is not claimed that they abolutely etablih the fact.

Having occaion to examine carefully as many of the books for children published by John Newbery as I could procure (and they are as carce as blackberries in midwinter, for what among books has o brief a life as a nurery book?), I was truck while peruing them with a certain ditinct literary flavour, o to