Queer Idea Of Children

A few days siaice ttoe writer piekcd up "a little cliild's book," it was called, the preface reading like this : "ïhero Is 110 easier method of couveyimg instruction to children, than through the medium of stories adapted to their capacities," etc. Then the story opens with some verses said to have been composed by one of the children told of in the book wlio was only about seven years of age, of which this is a specimen : "Gay and pleasant is the Morning, Tlie Bun shint s fortli wilh cloudiess sky, Flowers, and ïrees and flelds adorning, With yarious tlnts to glad the eye." Here is a "little" sentence which would no doubt test the mental capasity of most children between nix and ten years of age, for whom this book is supposed to be' written : "The cottage too, was worthy of its tomate, whose taste for1 the beautfes of nature had led her to ornament it with the trailing vines which add g-race to wlxatever they cliing to and glve an air of taste and refinement to the humblest tenement." And the conversation credited to the children is somewhat astonishin.íí, ome of. the words beiing longer than the little tots themselves. iueer ideas some people have of the eapacity of children.