Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1898 — Children’s Books. [ARTICLE]

Children’s Books.

One of the cleverest of the woman writers of England, Miss Botham Edwards, has uttered some wise words concerning modern juvenile literature. She said the other ilHy that she got her own education from an old copy of Shnkspeare, nnd she added: "I disapprove of children's books. I had few own childhood, and rend only the English classics, and found them entertaining enough. The present fashion of writing story books specially for children Is, I think, a mistake. It tends to weaken their taste for literature, nnd when they grow older they are not able to appreciate the lxtst forms of literary style.”