The book is illustrated by many beautiful diagrams. "Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories." This book, dating from 1787 and 1788, gains a new attraction from the present charming edition. The five illustrations by William Blake, although far from his best productions -- except in the charming picture of the angelic harper opposite age 56 -- will always give the book an added interest; and Mr. E. V. Lucas has written an introduction for which alone, we are almost inclined to say, the book is worth buying. -- Child Life , ...
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The book is illustrated by many beautiful diagrams. "Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories." This book, dating from 1787 and 1788, gains a new attraction from the present charming edition. The five illustrations by William Blake, although far from his best productions -- except in the charming picture of the angelic harper opposite age 56 -- will always give the book an added interest; and Mr. E. V. Lucas has written an introduction for which alone, we are almost inclined to say, the book is worth buying. -- Child Life , Vol. 8 * * * * * From the INTRODUCTION Mary and Caroline, though the children of wealthy parents were, in their infancy, left entirely to the management of servants, or people equally ignorant. Their mother died suddenly, and their father, who found them very troublesome at home, placed them under the tuition of a woman of tenderness and discernment, a near relation, who was induced to take on herself the important charge through motives of compassion. They were shamefully ignorant, considering that Mary had been fourteen, and Caroline twelve years in the world. If they had been merely ignorant, the task would not have appeared so arduous; but they had caught every prejudice that the vulgar casually instill. In order to eradicate these prejudices, and substitute good habits instead of those they had carelessly contracted, Mrs. Mason never suffered them to be out of her sight. They were allowed to ask questions on all occasions, a method she would not have adopted, had she educated them from the first, according to the suggestions of her own reason, to which experience had given its sanction. They had tolerable capacities; but Mary had a turn for ridicule, and Caroline was vain of her person. She was, indeed, very handsome, and the inconsiderate encomiums that had, in her presence, been lavished on her beauty made her, even at that early age, affected.
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