Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers

book is all about tools, and there is nothing that delights a child so

much. Hammers and saws belong to a province of life that positively calls for imitation. The juvenile lyrical drama, surely of the most ancient Thespian model, wherein the trades of mankind are successively simulated to the running burthen “On a cold and frosty morning,” gives a good instance of the artistic ta...