Forgotten Books of the American Nursery; a History of the Development of the American Story-book

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Stone, who wrote a prosy arti- cle about animals; and Mrs. Embury, called the Mitford of America (because of her stories of village life), who furnished a religious tale to controvert the infidel do6brines considered at the time subtly undermining to childish faith, with prob- able reference to the Unitarian movement then gaining many adherents. Mrs. Embury's stories were so generally gloomy, being strongly tinged with the melancholy religious views of certain church denominations, that one wou...ld suppose them to have been eminently successful in turning children away from the faith she sought to encourage. For this "Keepsake" the same lady let her poetical fancy take flight in " The Re- membrance of Youth is a Sigh," a somewhat lugubrious and pessimistic subjed for a child's Christmas Annual. Occasion- ally a more cheerful mood possessed " lanthe," as she chose to call herself, and then we have some of the earliest descrip- tions of country life in literature for American children. There is one especially charming pifture of a walk in New England woods upon a crisp Odober day, when the children merrily C 200 ] American Nursery what later the frequent attempts to exploit anonymously and profitably his pseudonymn in England as well as in America were loudly lamented by the originator of the "Tales of Peter Parley." It is, moreover, suggestive of the gradual change in the relations between the two countries that anything written in America was thought worth imitating.

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