Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online
at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There are some of us now reaching
middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one
respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for
children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written
FOR children because the new psychological business of writing
ABOUT them as though they were small pills or hatched in some
especially scientific method is extremely popular today. Writing
for children rather than about them is very difficult as everybody
who has tried it knows. It can only be done, I am convinced, by
somebody having a great deal of the child in his own outlook and
sensibilities. Such was the author of "The Little Duke" and "The
Dove in the Eagle's Nest," such the author of "A Flatiron for a
Farthing," and "The Story of a Short Life." Such, above all, the
author of "Alice in Wonderland." Grownups imagine that they can do
the trick by adopting baby language and talking down to their very
critical audience. There never was a greater mistake. The
imagination of the author must be a child's imagination and yet
maturely consistent, so that the White Queen in "Alice," for
instance, is seen just as a child would see her, but she continues
always herself through all her distressing adventures. The supreme
touch of the white rabbit pulling on his white gloves as he hastens
is again absolutely the child's vision, but the white rabbit as
guide and introducer of Alice's adventures belongs to mature grown
insight.
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