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Rh of children's books) and the young people for whom they were written, and they are in themelves mot entertaining and amuing reading. This group of little books poees, moreover, another characteritic that is sufficiently remarkable of itelf to be noticed. While they all evince a real genius for writing in a tyle uited to the capacities of little folk, there is a nameles something about them which, far more than is the cae with thouands of other books for the young, is calculated to enforce the attention and excite the interet of "children of a larger growth."

Now one of this little group, "The Lilliputian Magazine," is attributed in the Britifh Mueum Catalogue to Oliver Goldmith; and o trong is the family likenes in all the books I have