For it brings back to us the days of our innocent childhood, when we stole unlawful pennies to pay for admission to the charmed circle of equestrian delights, and in youthful purity of soul, and general dirtiness of face and hands, listened to the ingenious witticisms of the clown, while we cracked the peaceful peanut, and shared the social gingerbread.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain!

Wholesome childhood, by Ernest R. Groves and Gladys Hoagland Groves.

"And thou didst need me, Beltane, in thy lonely childhood thou didst need me, and IO God pity meI was far from thee!

In his youth he was a weakling, the only one of twelve children who survived infancy; and his unhappy childhood, the tyranny of his father, and the separation from his loved mother, gave to his whole life the stamp of melancholy which is noticeable in all his poems.

It teaches a wonderful lesson of obedience to parents and love and respect for them, as well as of the charm of a pure and consecrated childhood, and the lesson is all the more helpful because it is full of the human interest of everyday life.

And then, the excitement subsiding, he would weep, till I have wished that sad second-childhood might have a mother still to lay its head upon her lap.

Self-love, and love of others, are equally natural; and before reason is developed, and the proper spiritual life begins, sweet and beautiful childhood may bloom out and imparadise our mortal life.

And myriads of years rolled round (in dreams Time is nothing), and still it kept, and is to keep, perpetual childhood, and is the Tutelar Genius of Childhood upon earth, and still goes lame and lovely.

Robert Hall was influenced in his studies by 'his intimate association in mere childhood with a tailor, one of his father's congregation, who was an acute metaphysician.'

His mother stroked it softly while her slow tears dropped down on his face with its expression of peaceful childhood.

Strains like these readily recall the glens and the magnificence amid which they were first heard, and hence, by an irresistible impulse, the mind is led to indulge in the strongest of all its sympathies, those which are mixed with the unalloyed and unsophisticated delights of buoyant childhood.

" He turned away to the back of the bed, and then, as if he saw something there worse than all the rest, faced about again quickly, saying, with some pathetic intonation of his lost childhood, "There is no need for them to point so at me, is there?

What grateful memories of tender childhood, what healthy durable associations, what sound habits of life can grow among these unwholesome and insecure shelters?

Roar after roar sounded through the night, but the young Maharajah slept the healthful and deep sleep of tired childhood and the mighty voice of the lord of the jungle did not disturb him.

R96225, 12Jun52, Gladys Hoagland Groves (W) GROVES, GLADYS (HOAGLAND) joint author Wholesale childhood.

There is no substitute for a genuine, free, serene, healthy, bread-and-butter childhood.

" Finally, in his Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, he glorifies universal childhood, that "eye among the blind," capable of seeing this common earth "Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.

They whispered to her that the peasant's rent must not be reduced, for he was well able to pay, and they pointed to the closely planted vines and vegetables and olives that stretched far away to right and left, where she remembered in her dreams of far childhood that there had been lawns and walks and flowers.

There is no substitute for a genuine, free, serene, healthy, bread-and-butter childhood.

And then there was the giant nursery, the giant childhood, the young giant's first efforts to speak, his first clear signs of affection.

Now it was like the terrible gleam of visible omnipotence, now like a soft ray of golden childhood.

No novelist has, however, told more graphically such appealing stories of helpless childhood and of the poor and the outcast.

I am not, therefore, disposed to consider the idle and reckless childhood of Byron as unfavourable to the development of his genius; but, on the contrary, inclined to think, that the indulgence of his mother, leaving him so much to the accidents of undisciplined impression, was calculated to cherish associations which rendered them, in the maturity of his powers, ingredients of spell that ruled his memory.

Under the observant eyes bent upon it, his face changed extraordinarily from the face of untroubled, almost immortal childhood to the face of struggling and reserved manhood.