Juvenile anecdotes, founded on facts : collected for the amusement of children

"The cautious mother" tells of a mother who examined the most childish story-book before she permitted her children to read it. "She never scrupled to sacrifice the beauty of a new purchase by freely cutting out as many leaves as contained passages likely to give them false ideas or to corrupt their innocence."

A selection of anecdotes from the two-volume edition. Originally published in 1795 by Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Juvenile travellers, & etc.