Family authorship—Limitations of the little novel—the English setting in early woodcuts: Thomas and John Bewick—the first school-story: Sarah Fielding’s _Governess_—Stories of country and domestic life: _The Village School_ and _Jemima Placid_—Other school-stories—Nature and Truth in _The Juvenile Spectator_—Adventures of animals—Mrs. Trimmer’s _Fabulous Histories_—_The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse_—_Keeper’s Travels_—_The Kitten of Sentiment_—Adventures of things: _The Silver Threepence_ and the _Pincushion_.