Madam How and Lady Why

Madam How and Lady Why, by Charles Kingsley
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Title: Madam How and Lady Why or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children
Author: Charles Kingsley Release Date: April 19, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1697]
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Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY or, FIRST LESSONS IN EARTH LORE FOR CHILDREN
DEDICATION
To my son Grenville Arthur, and to his school-fellows at Winton House This little book is dedicated.
PREFACE
My dear boys,—When I was your age, there were no such children’s books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures in them ugly and mean: while you have your choice of books without number, clear, amusing, and pretty, as well as really instructive, on subjects which were only talked of fifty years ago by a few learned men, and very little understood even by them. So if mere reading of books would make wise men, you ought to grow up much wiser than us old fellows. But mere reading of wise books will not make you wise men: you must ...