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Excerpt from Richard EscottJames Stanier, carpenter and philosopher, of Mil ford village, is supreme there, and rules his neighbours like unto the beneficent tyrant praised by Aristotle. He is a man of sixty or so, grey-haired and some what bent in the shoulders, with a face usually stem and impassive, but capable of expressing every emo tion. His workshop is separated by a garden from the main road of the village, and, as he turns and saws an...

Excerpt from The Twentieth Century ChildA large number of children-the majority, I suppose - confide everything about them selves to their parents, and nothing about their parents or home to anybody else. A certain number of others confide everything about their home and their parents to some outside friend, and regard all their guardians as quaint specimens of natural history, rather liable to bite, most comfortable at a distance, but quite i...

Excerpt from George and SonHe wears a frock-coat and top-hat in London and Paris, was the reply, he doesn't drink, he doesn't make love to pretty housemaids in country houses, he goes to bed at twelve and gets up at half-past eight, and pays all the trades men whom everybody pays, and never has a row with the others, and has the most perfect instinct as to the company in which it is or is not safe to tell an improper story. What more do you wa...

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Excerpt from George and Son He wears a frock-coat and top-hat in London and Paris, was the reply, he doesn't drink, he doesn't make love to pretty housemaids in country houses, he goes to bed at twelve and gets up at half-past eight, and pays all the trades men whom everybody pays, and never has a row with the others, and has the most perfect instinct as to the company in which it is or is not safe to tell an improper story. What more do you ...

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Excerpt from The Twentieth Century ChildA large number of children-the majority, I suppose - confide everything about them selves to their parents, and nothing about their parents or home to anybody else. A certain number of others confide everything about their home and their parents to some outside friend, and regard all their guardians as quaint specimens of natural history, rather liable to bite, most comfortable at a distance, but quite i...

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Excerpt from Richard Escott Nay, he said, filling the word with kindly apol ogy, I'm none for carping 't's ill work to natter at a man who is bringing out the best that's in him. But give us your best, may-be the story-books do good to them as won't read others, and I'm none for saying you can't teach people lessons there and give them good advice, - if so be that they don't miss it all and go on with the story. About the Publisher Forgotte...