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Victorian children's books gain latter-day following.(Culture, Et Cetera)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980506
Author:Duin, Julia
Parents are snapping up books from the 19th century that tout traditional values, good breeding, modesty and courage, especially swashbuckling yarns written by Victorian boys' book author G.A. Henty.
They sell in the thousands each month, an impressive clip for children's book sales.
"Books written in the 1880s and 1890s had compound, complex sentences. They assume the reader will think for a moment," says Don Reisler of Jo Ann Reisler Ltd., a Vienna-based specialist in old children's books.
"As you work your way through the 20th century, you saw the dumbing ...
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