of children's books) and the young people for whom they were written, and they are in themſelves moſt entertaining and amuſing reading. This group of little books poſſeſſes, moreover, another characteriſtic that is sufficiently remarkable of itſelf to be noticed. While they all evince a real genius for writing in a ſtyle ſuited to the capacities of little folk, there is a nameleſs something about them which, far more than is the caſe with thouſands of other books for the young, is calculated to enforce the attention and excite the intereſt of "children of a larger growth."
Now one of this little group, "The Lilliputian Magazine," is attributed in the Britifh Muſeum Catalogue to Oliver Goldſmith; and ſo ſtrong is the family likeneſs in all the books I have men-
