imagination and soften the heart of childhood, than the good-boy
stories which have been in later years composed for them. In the latter
case, their minds are, as it were, put into the stocks, like their feet
at the dancing-school, and the moral always consists in good moral
conduct being crowned with temporal success. Truth is, I would not give
one tear shed over _Little Red Riding-Hood_ for all the benefit to be
derived from a hundred Histories of Jemmy Goodchild.... In a word, I
think the selfish tendencies will be soon enough acquired in this
arithmetical age; and that, to make the higher class of character, our
wild fictions--like our own simple music--will have more effect in
awakening the fancy and elevating the disposition, than the colder and
more elaborate compositions of modern authors and composers."

F.R.R.

Milnrow Parsonage.

_Early Culture of the Imagination_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--MR. ALFRED GATTY
will find what he inquires for in the 74th volume of the _Quarterly
Review_, "Children's Books." With the prefatory remarks of that article may
be compared No. 151. of the _Rambler_, "The Climacterics of the Mind."

T.J.

_William Chilcot_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--MR. HOOPER is referred to the
History of Tiverton, by Lieut. Col. Harding, ed. Boyce, Tiverton;
Whittaker, London, 1847, vol. ii., B. III., p. 167., for an account of the
family of Chilcot _alias_ Comyn; to which most likely the author belonged,
and was probably a native of Tiverton. As MR. HOOPER many not have ready
access to the book, I send the substance of an extract. Robert Chilcott