Stories from The History of Rome by Mrs.
She has thought, therefore, that if published they might perhaps supply a want that may have been felt by other parents..
She found that they thoroughly enjoyed these old tales from Roman history, and liked to hear them repeated again and again.
Whenever she discovered that a word or idea was unintelligible to them, she took pains to simplify it.
One story after another was written and read to her little boys.
She accordingly made the experiment.
The writer, however, believed that it was quite possible to put portions of Livy and Plutarch into language which should need little or no explanation even to children of that age.
They abound in words and ideas which a child of four or six years old not only does not understand, but cannot be made to understand.
But they are not suited to very young children.
There are, indeed, plenty of story-books drawing their materials from history, and professing to be intended for children.
But she could find nothing else fit to read to them.
THE writer of this little book was not satisfied that her children should hear nothing but fairy tales and the Stories of nursery life, now so popular. (Emily) Beesly.
Stories from The History of Rome by Mrs
