“The stories are printed and bound the same size as _Evenings at Home_,” wrote Miss Edgeworth to her cousin (Feb. 27, 1796), “but I am afraid you will dislike the title; my father had sent _The Parent’s Friend_, but Mr. Johnson has degraded it into _The Parent’s Assistant_, which I dislike particularly from association with an old book of Arithmetic called _The Tutor’s Assistant_.”