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[Luisa]

Thing." A still younger hand contributes a short story

in which the hero returns to his home after a report of his death had been believed by his wife and family. The last sentence is worth quoting: "We will now," says the author, "leave Mrs. White
and her two
children to enjoy the sudden appearance of
Mr. White." Here is
an editorial announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, every

week at the end of the paper there will
be a little article on the habits of the paper." On the whole, authorship does not seem to foster the quality of imagination. Convention, during

certain early years, may be a very strong motive--not so much with children brought up strictly
within its limits, perhaps, as with those who have
had an exceptional freedom. Against this, as a kind of childish bohemianism, there is, in one phase of childhood,
a strong
reaction. To one

child, brought up internationally, and with somewhat too much liberty amongst
peasant play- mates and their games, in many dialects, eagerness to become like "other people," and even like the other people of quite inferior fiction, grew to be almost a passion. The desire was in time out-grown, but it cost the girl some years of her simplicity. The style is not always the child. LETTERS The letter exacted from a child is usually a letter of thanks; somebody has sent him a box of chocolates. The
thanks tend to stiffen a child's style; but in any case a letter is the occasion of a sudden self-consciousness,
newer to a child than his elders know. They speak prose and know it.
But a young child possesses his words by a
different tenure; he is not aware of the spelt and written aspect of the things he says e
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