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    OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.

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    On the Want of Juvenile Publications . To the Editor . Sir , I am struck by the inquiries which M . S . has made through the Repository respecting Unitarian religious stories for children . It seems to me that the difficulty experienced must chiefly originate from , the circumstance of few writers of these stories having broadly avowed

    themselves Unitarians , or put their pieces under the special protection of the Unitarian Tract Society ; else surely there seems no want of rational and religious tales for children . In every quarter Unitarians are putting them forth ; but they do it quietly , and in many cases they are obliged to do it anonymously in order to accomplish their object at all , it being well known that Calvinistic booksellers had rather

    not insert the names of notorious Unitarians in their title-pages . That they freely purchase and print the works of many Unitarians , and that through their means the works themselves obtain considerable circulation , I have had ample opportunities of knowing ; and I regard it as a far more promising opening for those who wish to do good , than confining themselves to the narrow sphere

    of an Unitarian publisher , unless Unitarians possessed one of remarkable energy and enterprize . Were the latter the case , year after year would not be suffered to elapse without an attempt at reprinting the numerous and superior religious ( ales which , are continually coming from the American Unitarian press , and of which we frequently see notices in the Christian Examiner . Two

    of these have indeed been reprinted in England , but it has been by means of the Wellington Press . With the exception of "James Talbot , " no American tale has been adopted by a Unitarian society . I beg leave to subjoin a list of those which have principally struck me in looking over American periodicals from the specimens therein given .

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    American Juvenile Publications . The Factory Girl ; Charles Ash ton ; The Lottery Ticket ; The Suspected Boy ( both the last reprinted by Houlstou , 25 , Paternoster Row ) ; The Advantage of a Good Resolution ; The Four Apples ; The Confession ; The

    Child who took what did not belong to her ; The Botanical Garden ; John Williams , or The Sailor Boy ; Self-conquest , or the Sixteenth Birthday ; The Prize ( Boston , Bowles and Dearborn ) ; Evening Hours ( Munroe and Francis , Boston ); Fruit and Flowers ( Cotton and Barnard , Boston ) .

    Messrs . Bowles and Dearborn have announced their intention of publishing a series of original books for children of all ages . Surely it would be desirable to import and reprint some of these . A .

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    On the Want of Juvenile Publications . To the Editor . Sir , I most heartily join in the regret expressed by your amiable correspondent , M . S ., ( p . 193 , ) relative to . the paucity

    of religious publications fitted for the use of the younger members of Unitarian families . At the same time , I think we are not so completely destitute as he seems to imagine . In a bookseller ' s shop , indeed , you may perhaps find twenty juvenile books with the doctrines of Trinitarianism emblazoned

    on every leaf for one that presents on its title-page the frightful word " Unitarian , " or the obnoxious name of any well-known Unitarian author . But still the Christian public possesses many excellent works of a religious and devotional character for juvenile readers ,

    in which , though there is no such profession of Unitarian ism , yet there is nothing of orthodoxy , nothing of sectarianism , nothing of controverted theology , nothing , in short , but simple and what we deem pure Christian principles , invested with their genuine power to regulate the conduct , to enlighten the mind , to warm the heart , and inspire

    Occasional Correspondence.

    OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/53/