THE BOY AND THE BOOK.
The late Dr. Edward Everett Hale was a great student of child life. Dr. Hale once dilated on the incorrigibly bad taste in books that children have. He instanced the case of his own son, now a famous architect, whose taste he had a hard time forming. The little boy, it seemed, cared only for the sensational literature. Jack Harkaway and Deadwood Dick seemed to him the very topmost pinnacle of literary excellence. He yawned over the splendid historical works his father read to him. One day, however, Dr. Hale had a gleam of hope. The little boy brought him a volume of English history and said: "Will you read me some more out of this, please?" "Why, certainly, my boy," the father answered cordially. "What part would you like to have?" "Read me," said the little hoy, "about Mary Queen of Scots getting 'her head cut off!"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 263, 13 December 1909, Page 3
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153THE BOY AND THE BOOK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 263, 13 December 1909, Page 3
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