... pictures. Years before good picture-books there were good stories, and these, whether they be the classics of the nursery, the laureates of its rhyme, the unknown author of its sagas, the born story-tellers—whether ... theirs, and one must yield presently to the babies as they grow up, even our criticism, for they will make their own standards of worth and unworthiness despite all our efforts to control their ... fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasure and diversions The greater part of our British youth lose their figure and grow out of fashion by the time they are twenty-five. As soon as the...