We know Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver, and the Arabian Nights, and Anson's Voyage, and many other delightful works which interest even the very young, and which do not lose their interest to the end of our lives.

Why should we order blindfold such books as Markham's New Children's Friend, the juvenile Scrap Book, the Child's Own Book, Niggens's Earth, Mudie's Sea, and somebody else's Fire and Air ?--books which, I will be bound for it, none of us ever opened.
"The list ought in all its parts to be thoroughly recast.

If Sir Benjamin Malkin will furnish the names of ten or twelve works of a scientific kind, which he thinks suited for prizes, the task will not be difficult; and, with his help, I will gladly undertake it.

There is a marked distinction between a prize book and a school book.

A prize book ought to be a book which a boy receives with pleasure, and turns over and over, not as a task, but spontaneously.