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Title: Madam How and Lady Why
or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children
Author: Charles Kingsley
Release Date: April 19, 2005 [eBook #1697]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
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MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY
or, FIRST LESSONS IN EARTH LORE FOR CHILDREN
DEDICATION
To my son Grenville Arthur, and to his school-fellows at Winton House
This little book is dedicated.
PREFACE
My dear boys,--When I was your age, there were no such children's books
as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures
in them ugly and mean: while you have your choice of books without
number, clear, amusing, and pretty, as well as really instructive, on
subjects which were only talked of fifty years ago by a few learned men,
and very little understood even by them. So if mere reading of books
would make wise men, you ought to grow up much wiser than us old fellows.
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