Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

When Lighthouses, on Rocks and Headlands, Showed Solitary and Watchful; And Benighted Sea-Birds Breasted on against Their Ponderous Lanterns and Fell Dead (1891)

Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time, Illustration by C. Stanfield, R.A. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891), 14.

Monday, March 9, 2015

You Do Not Know the Advantage to Being English Children (1842)

H.F. Wink, ed., The Children’s Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction: A Reward Book for Sabbath Schools, Day Schools, and Families V (1842): 293.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Whilst You Were Sleeping, Little Dear-My-Soul, Strange Things Have Happened (1898)

Eugene Field, “The Mouse and the Moonbeam,” The Children’s Fourth Reader, Ellen M. Cyr, ed. (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1898), 70.

Friday, March 6, 2015

Mrs. Lookina Left Him, Taking the Candle, and Locked the Door (1892)

Felix Volkhovsky, "A China Cup and Other Stories for Children,"  Illustrated by Malischiff (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), 91.

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Things Hitherto Familiar and Friendly Now Became Full of Terror; and the Comfort of Her Life Was Gone (1888)

Amy Walton, “The Truslow Ghost,” A Pair of Clogs and Other Stories for Children (London: Blackie and Son, 1888), 124.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Eliza, Do You Know What Matter Is? (1842)

H.F. Wink, ed., The Children’s Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction: A Reward Book for Sabbath Schools, Day Schools, and Families V (1842): 161.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015