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Turner, and the Misses Taylor were at any rate not humorists.
If they stimulate the sense of comedy in the child of our times, they must have quelled it 21! "fife in in the child of their own. Whereas, of some of our later writers, in whose eyes Mrs. Fen- wick and her like are doubtless nothing but ridiculous, it is to be feared that they have done worse than quell the sense of comedy in chil- dren ; that they have rather made it weak with the tension of their use; they have "practised upon it,..." as used to be said of unlawful arts.
They have worn it out by too persistent appeal.
I would rather have trusted to the recovery of a child's comic spirit after the negative opera- tion of a Mrs. Fenwick — even in the days when she was taken seriously — than I would hope for a healthy condition after a course of reading among the newer Christmas story- books of a comic character. All is not for self-congratulation as time brings its revenges.
% I find, in nearly all the little books of the day, the repeated and repeated stimulation of the spirit of fun in its thinnest shape; and sometimes there is to be perceived the author's courageous hope that the child will think better of the fun than he himself has succeeded 22 in thinking, when all is done; now and then the flagging heart is easily to be detected, and the misgiving that the wary little reader may find no more laughter in the matter than moved the writer at his work of humorous in- vention.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Turner, and the Misses Taylor were at any rate not humorists.
If they stimulate the sense of comedy in the child of our times, they must have quelled it 21! "fife in in the child of their own. Whereas, of some of our later writers, in whose eyes Mrs. Fen- wick and her like are doubtless nothing but ridiculous, it is to be feared that they have done worse than quell the sense of comedy in chil- dren ; that they have rather made it weak with the tension of their use; they have "practised upon it,..." as used to be said of unlawful arts.
They have worn it out by too persistent appeal.
I would rather have trusted to the recovery of a child's comic spirit after the negative opera- tion of a Mrs. Fenwick — even in the days when she was taken seriously — than I would hope for a healthy condition after a course of reading among the newer Christmas story- books of a comic character. All is not for self-congratulation as time brings its revenges.
% I find, in nearly all the little books of the day, the repeated and repeated stimulation of the spirit of fun in its thinnest shape; and sometimes there is to be perceived the author's courageous hope that the child will think better of the fun than he himself has succeeded 22 in thinking, when all is done; now and then the flagging heart is easily to be detected, and the misgiving that the wary little reader may find no more laughter in the matter than moved the writer at his work of humorous in- vention.
What to read after Childhood?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Meynell Alice Christiana Thompson to read onlineMoreLess
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