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When I remember my own happy childhood over in the Oregon woods, where I ran as free and untrammelled as a young colt in the pasture, and made mud-pies beside the brook that had its home in a great bubbling spring on the hillside, breathing the air fragrant with the perfume of wild lilies, while robins and bobolinks and meadow larks sported and sang without fear, on every side when I contrast a childhood like that with the child-life in the Boston slums, I am heart-broken.
Moscheles the most Brilliant Climax reached by the Viennese School. His Child-Life at Prague. Extraordinary Precocity. Goes to Vienna as the Pupil of Salieri and Albrechts-burger. Acquaintance with Beethoven. Moscheles is honored with a Commission to make a Piano Transcription of Beethoven's "Fidelio." His Intercourse with the Great Man. Concert Tour. Arrival in Paris.
Beyond the much-enjoyed dandle on Father's knee, or the cuddle with Mother, delights are few in Moorish child-life, and of toys such as we have they know nothing, whatever they may find to take their place. But when a boy is old enough to amuse himself, there is no end to the mischief and fun he will contrive, and the lads of Barbary are as fond of their games as we of ours.
W.R. Clark thus rescuing an inimitable little work from comparative oblivion that the parents of the youthful author reluctantly consented to the publication of this curious delineation of child-life. From the date of his birth , Charlie must have written his work some forty years ago.
The educational reformers who have had deepest insight into child-life, have given us clear and profound warnings. Rousseau says: "Study children, for be sure you do not understand them. Let childhood ripen in children. The wisest apply themselves to what it is important to men to know, without considering what children are in a condition to learn.
"Life in and with Nature and with the fair silent things of Nature, should be fostered by parents and others," Froebel tells us, "as a chief fulcrum of child-life, and this is accomplished chiefly in play, which is at first simply natural life."
Carleton, her pet, was very much with her during his child-life, so that his recollections of his mother were ever very clear, very tender, and profoundly influential for good. The first event whose isolation grew defined in the mind of "the baby new to earth and sky," was an incident of 1825, when he was twenty-three months old.
The peasant mother to whose poorest hut that first stir of child-life has brought a vision of angels, who has marvelled at the wealth of precious gifts which a babe brings to her breast, who has felt the sword piercing her own bosom also as danger threatened it, on whose mean world her child has flung a glory brighter than glory of earth, is the truest critic of Tintoret.
A vague sense of desolateness, of the turning-places of life, as real to children as to older folk, seemed to press suddenly down upon all three of us. Ours was not the ordinary child-life even of that day. And that was a time when children had no world of their own as they have to-day. Whatever developed men and women became a part of the younger life training as well.
The story teaches the great lesson of dependence upon God and submission to His will and His laws. There are many beautiful stories of child-life, but the story of the Boyhood of Jesus is the most beautiful of all.
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