One, that the language, in which it is written, is above the level of certain capacities ; and that farmer Johnson does not talk precisely in a farmerlike style. The same objection may, with equal propriety, be made to Number Two. But it must be remembered, that these stories are not intended for little children alone, nor by any means exclusively for uneducated persons. There are many, (f mature age, excellent capacity, and highly educated, whom we would persuade to become as little children, and profit by that instruction, which these tales are designed to supply. ' We are apt to over-graduate the change, between our present seasons and the corresponding seasons of our youth, forgetting that Thomson’s description of an English spring, by which so many of us have been fairly transported, in our childhood, over the sea, is, after all, the genuine spring, which lives in our early recollections. It appears to me, that we have been occasionally misled, in a somewhat similar manner, in the preparation of books de^ signed for certain classes of our fellow-countrymen. Under a monarchy, it is of importance to keep up the Chinese ivall of distinction between the
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