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widely different and environed as Daisy Ashford and Miss Edgeworth’s “Rosamond.” Ever since “The Young Visiters” was published, we have wanted to pay tribute to Mrs. Ashford, or whoever was responsible for the preservation of the record of Daisy’s spontaneity and lack of self-consciousness. Rosamond’s mother would have persuaded her to consign the precious volume to the flames if she could have left her along long enough to get it written. There has never been the slightest doubt in our minds that Daisy Ashford wrote the book and wrote it when she was nine years old, spelling and all. We share Mr. Herford’s feeling about Barrie’s preface and tell everybody to read it last. The author, we think, need not have read many novels. The “Idear” was the thing and her unswerving development of it is an incentive to all who would write. Moreover, we look upon its publication, and the lively criticism attending it, as one more indication that we are entering upon a freer and more illuminating period of communication with childhood and children.