Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 1, 1845, vol. 1, no. 5, p. ??

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UNCLE PETER’S FAIRY TALES. Farmer & Daggers, 30 Ann Street.

This little book was designed for English children between the ages of eight and fourteen, and it contains too many local allusions, we should think, to prove a very profitable book for readers of the same age on this side the Atlantic. It is not as prettily printed as a book of Fairy Tales should be, but well enough for the price asked for it. It has several entirely unpronounceable names in it, which will render it less acceptable to those for whom it was designed than it would otherwise be, Children being very delicate critics, and requiring the purest and most idiomatic English in their reading. In other respects it is a delightful work of the class to which it belongs; and a friend, in whose judgment we have implicit faith, says that he pities any grown up man who is not fascinated by it.