experiment had succeeded, and children's stories were a printed fact.

FOOTNOTES:

[45-A] Field, _The Child and his Book_, p. 223.

[51-A] Welsh, _Bookseller of the Last Century_, pp. 22, 23.

[52-A] Foster, _Life of Goldsmith_, vol. i, p. 244.

[54-A] Welsh, _Bookseller of the Last Century_, p. 109.




CHAPTER III

1750-1776




Kings should be good
Not men of blood.
_The New England Primer_, 1791

If Faith itself has different dresses worn
What wonder modes in wit should take their turn.
POPE: _Essay on Man_