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The Child's Pictorial History of England / From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Chapter 2: PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
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Presented for young readers, the book offers a chronological, illustrated survey of England’s past, beginning with its earliest inhabitants and moving through Roman occupation, successive migrations and regional kingdoms, the medieval transformations, the later Tudor and Stuart eras, the constitutional developments of the Revolution, and the Hanoverian period up to the early nineteenth century. Chapters combine simple narrative with descriptions of everyday life, institutions, and customs, using clear language and pictorial examples to make political changes and social practices accessible to children.


PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.


A juvenile history of England has long been needed in our primary schools.

Those already prepared, and in use, are written in a style entirely beyond the capacities of young children, and too comprehensive in detail.

“History for children ought to be told in their own simple language, or it fails to interest them; while all that is unfitted for childish ears, or unsuited to a childish understanding, should be carefully omitted; at the same time, it is essential to avoid making false or imperfect impressions by an injudicious brevity.”

Philadelphia, 1853.