[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB-I
SIR,—From a motive of personal gratitude and happy recol- lection I ask you to add to the list of excellent books for the children of twenty or thirty years ago the writings of Mrs. Gatty and her daughter, Mrs. Ewing. Surely "Parables from Nature" and "Aunt Judy's Tales" by Mrs. Gatty, and "A Flat Iron for a Farthing," "Jan of the Windmill," and many
others by Mrs. Ewing, are worthy of a very honourable place among the books which in the "sixties," "seventies," and " eighties " guided children's imaginations to what is good and true. Also I would like to speak very gratefully of Aunt Judy's Magazine, edited by Mrs. Getty and her daughter, which was, I suppose, one of the earliest magazines for children, and certainly was a most delightful one.—I am, [We entirely agree as to Mrs. Gatty's and her daughter's delightful books; but, as we have already said, we made no attempt in the article to name the best children's books, but only mentioned a few by way of illustration.—En. Spectator.]
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