No More Learning

Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock: two legendary tales.
1776.
Percy, a tragedy. 1777. 5th edn. 1812.
Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies. 1777.
5th edn. 1791.
The Fatal Falsehood, a tragedy. 1779.
Sacred Dramas, chiefly intended for young persons; to which is added
Sensibility, a poem. 1782. 24th edn. 1850.
Florio, a tale for fine gentlemen and fine ladies; and, The Bas Bleu, or
Conversation : two poems. 1786.
Slavery, a poem. 1788.
Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society.
1788. 8th edn. 1792.
An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. 1790. 5th edn.
1793.
Remarks on the speech of M. Dupont. . . on the subjects of Religion and
Public Education. 1793.
Village Politics, by Will Chip. 1793.
Cheap Repository Tracts. 1795-8. [Those signed 'Z' were written by
Hannah More. ]
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. 2 vols. 1799.
13th edn. 1826.
Hints towards forming the character of a Young Princess. 2 vols. 1805.
Celebs in Search of a Wife. 2 vols. 1809. 16th edn. 1826.
Practical Piety, or the influence of Religion of the Heart on the Life and
Manners. 2 vols. 1811. 19th edn. 1850.
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Christian Morals. 2 vols. 1813. 9th edn. 1826.
Essay on the character and practical writings of St Paul. 2 vols. 1815.
5th edn. 1851.
Stories for the Middle Ranks of Society, and Tales for the Common People.
1819. [Reprints of Cheap Repository Tracts, etc. )
Moral Sketches of prevailing pinions of Manners, foreign and domestic;
with Reflections on Prayer. 1819. 10th edn. 1830.
Bible Rhymes on the names of all the books of the Old and New Testaments.
1821,
The Spirit of Prayer. 1825. 12th edn. 1849. [Selections from her published
works. ]
The Feast of Freedom; or, the Abolition of Domestic Slavery in Ceylon. 1827.
Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay. Ed. Roberts, Arthur. 1860.
Harland, Marion. Hannah More. (Literary Hearthstones. ) 1900.
Meakin, Annette M. B. Hannah More, a biographical study. 1911.
Roberts, William. Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs Hannah
More. 2 vols. 1834. 4 vols. 1838.
Thompson, Henry. Life of Hannah More, with notices of her sisters. 1838.
Yonge, Charlotte M. Hannah More. (Eminent Women Series. ) 1888.
Catherine Talbot
Works. 1772. 9th edn. 1819.
Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week. 1770. Frequently rptd.
Essays on various subjects. 2 vols. 1772.
Correspondence. See Carter, Elizabeth.
Catherine Talbot wrote one paper for Johnson's Rambler (no. Xxx,
30 June 1750), and was also a contributor to Athenian Letters, ed. by
Birch, Thomas, 4 vols. , 1741-3.
CHAPTER XVI
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
I. HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Ainger, Alfred. Lectures and Essays. Vol. 1. 1905.
Ashton, John. Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century. 1882.
Dobson, H. Austin. De Libris. 1908. [On Maria Edgeworth and Kate
Greenaway. ]
Eckenstein, Lina. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes. 1906.
Field, E. M. The Child and his Book. 1892.
Godfrey, Elizabeth. English Children in the Olden Time. 1907.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Catalogue of Chapbooks, Garlands, and Popular
Histories. Privately ptd. 1849.
The Nursery Rhymes of England. (Percy Society. Early English
Poetry, vol. iv. ) 1842–3. Enlarged edn. 1846.
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. 1849.
Keightley, Thomas. Fairy Mythology. 1828. Enlarged edn. (Bohn. ) 1847.
Lucas, E. V. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago. 1906. Selections, with
introduction.
Old-Fashioned Tales. 1905. Selections, with introduction.
Mackarness, Mrs H. (born Planché). Children of the Olden Time. 1874.


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Pearson, Edwin. Banbury Chapbooks and Nursery Toy Book Literature of
the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. (Limited edn, privately
ptd. ) 1890.
Salmon, Edward. Juvenile Literature as it is. 1888.
Tuer, A. W. The History of the Horn-Book. 2 vols. 1896.
Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children's Books. 1898-9.
Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books. 1899-1900.
See, also, his introduction to reprint of Lamb's Prince Dorus, 1889.
Tytler, Sarah (Keddie, Henrietta).
Childhood a Hundred Years Ago.
1877.
Welsh, Charles. A Bookseller of the Last Century Ci. e. John Newbery).
1885.
See, also, his introductions to A. Berquin's Looking-Glass for the Mind;
to W. Roscoe's Butterfly's Ball; to Mrs C. A. Dorset's The Peacock
'At Home,' and The Lion's Masquerade; and to Elizabeth Turner's The
Daisy and The Cowslip; of which details are given below.
Yonge, C. M. A Storehouse of Stories. 2 vols. 1870. Selections, with
introduction.
A work which cannot be overlooked by anyone who studies the subject,
but which defies classification, is The Story of Pet Marjorie [Fleming),
with her Journals. Ed. Macbean, L. 1905. See, also, Marjorie Fleming,
a sketch. By Brown, John. 1863.
Magazine Articles
The Atlantic Monthly, 1888; Chambers's Journal, 1855, 1862 (on chap-
books); The Cornhill Magazine, 1900; The English Illustrated Magazine,
1883 (The New Hero, by Watts-Dunton, Theodore); Fraser's Magazine,
1846 (Thackeray, W. M. ); The Guardian of Education, 1802-4 (a retrospect by
Trimmer, Mrs); The Imprint, 1913 (Crane, Walter, and others); The Library,
1901; Macmillan's Magazine, 1869 (Yonge, Charlotte M. ); National Review,
1905; Newbery House Magazine, 1890-1 (Welsh, Charles); Notes and Queries,
1913 (11th series, vol. vir: largely bibliographical); Opuscula of the Sette of
Odd Volumes, nos. 11 and 13 (privately ptd, by Welsh, Charles); Quarterly
Review, vols. LXXI, LXXIV, CLXII, CLXXXIII, cxcii, CXCIV; The Studio
(Winter Number), 1897-8 (White, Gleeson); The Sunday at Home (1894).
Germane to the subject, but not concerned with it primarily, are very
many works on education (for which see the various chapters in this
· History), many on morals and the state of society (particularly in the reign of
George III) and many biographies. Most of the introductions to reprints of
individual works contain historical matter. Welsh's Bookseller of the Last
Century gives a full bibliography of all Newbery's publications from 1740 to
1802. Eckenstein's Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes contains a brief
list of works on this highly-specialised branch of the subject : except for the
few convenient summary treatises mentioned above, books on folk-lore pure
and simple are not included here. The Folk-lore Society has traced most
fairy tales to their oral appearance all over the world.
For early writers whose works passed into the hands of children, see the
references in the text to previous volumes of this History. 'Adult' writers
who also wrote books for children are mentioned below.
6
II. CHAPBOOK EDITIONS
These often piratical productions not merely included any new popular
work of the day, but preserved many traditional tales and rimes not otherwise
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and over again, in different circumstances. It is impossible to give a strict
bibliography of them. So far as children are concerned, they began about 1700
and died out about 1820; towards the end of that period, the more responsible
publishers copied the chapbook format to some extent, but provided new
type, new blocks and good paper. The chief works regularly produced in chap-
book form were: Bevis of Southampton; The Children (or Babes) in the Wood;
Cock Robin; Cries of London; Cries of York; Robinson Crusoe; Eastern
Tales (Arabian Nights and similar stories); Fables; Fairy Tales (Perrault,
etc. ; usually single tales, not collections); John Gilpin; Guy of Warwick;
Tom Hickathrift; The House that Jack Built; Mother Hubbard; Jack the
Giant-Killer; Jack and Jill; Nursery Rimes of all kinds, under various
titles; Adventures of Philip Quarll; Riddle-books; The Seven Champions of
Christendom; Tom Thumb; Valentine and Orson; Dr Watts's poems, under
various titles; Sir Richard Whittington.
III. SELECTED AUTHORS
In this and the following section only the most important authors and
works are included. In some cases, the first edition cannot be traced, though
it is known that existing editions are not the first. Where dates are given in
brackets, they are those which are certified by the known facts of the author's
life, or by the work of an illustrator, or by the publisher's name.
(Anonymous works are included among Minor Writers, below. )
Aikin, Anna Laetitia (afterwards Mrs Barbauld). Hymns in Prose for
Children. 1781.
Lessons for Children. 4 parts. 1808.
Life of. Memoir of Mrs B. , by Le Breton, A. L. 1874.
Aikin, A. L. and J. (Barbauld and Aikin). Evenings at Home. 6 vols.
1792-6
Aikin, John. The Calendar of Nature. 2nd edn. 1785.
Aikin, Lucy. Juvenile Correspondence. 2nd edn. 1816.
Poetry for Children. (Selected by L. A. ) 1803.
Memoirs etc. of. Ed. by Le Breton, P. H. 1864.
Also many versions of classical works in words of one syllable, under
pseud. Godolphin, Mary.
Argus, Arabella. The Adventures of a Donkey. 1815. Further Adventures.
1821.
The Juvenile Spectator. 2 parts. 1810.
Ostentation and Liberality. 2 vols. 1821.
Ballantyne, Robert Michael. See Reference Catalogue of current literature,
issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons), and the D. of N. B.
Barbauld, Mrs. See Aikin, A. L. , ante.
Belson, Mary. See Elliott, Mary, post.
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. See chap. ix, ante.
Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Country Rhimes for Children.
By J. B. 1686. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Temporal Things
Spiritualised (a revised and shortened version of the first edn), 1701;
3rd edn, 1707; 9th edn, as Divine Emblems, or Temporal Things
Spiritualised, 1724. Facsimile reprint of 1st edn, with introd. by
Brown, John, 1889.
Burton, Richard. See Crouch, N. , post.
• Carroll, Lewis' (i. e. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge). Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland. 1865. Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found
there. 1871. Both illustrated by Tenniel, Sir John. The Nursery Alice.
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'Carroll, Lewis. ' The Hunting of the Snark. 1876.
Sylvie and Bruno. 1889.
Sylvie and Bruno concluded. 1893.
Life and Letters of. By Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson. 1898.
Chapone, Mrs. See ante, chap. xv.
Cole, Sir Henry (pseud. Summerley, Felix). The Home Treasury. 12 vols.
1843-55.
Crossman, Samuel. The Young Man's Calling: or the Whole Duty of
Youth. . . . And also, Divine Poems. 1685. Other edns: 1695, 1725.
Crouch, N. (pseud. Burton, Richard, or B. , R. ). Winter Evening Entertain-
ments; in two Parts. 6th edn. 1737. [The first edition appears to have
been published at least by 1685. ]
Youth's Divine Pastime 3rd edn. 1691.
Day, Thomas. The Children's Miscellany: in which is included the History
of Little Jack. 1787.
The History of Sandford and Merton. 3 vols. Vol. I. 1783. Vol. II.
1786. Vol. 111. 1789. Translated into French, 'An VI de la République. '
Dickens, Charles. Holiday Romance. 1868.
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See ‘Carroll, Lewis,' ante.
Dorset, Mrs C. A. The Lion's Masquerade. 1807. Facsimile rpt, ed.
Welsh, C.