FOOTNOTES:
[73-A] Winsor, _Memorial History of Boston_, vol. ii, p. xix.
[80-A] Cross, _Development of the English Novel_, pp. 38, 39.
CHAPTER IV
1776-1790
The British King
Lost States thirteen.
_The New England Primer_,
Philadelphia, 1797
The good little boy
That will not tell a lie,
Shall have a plum-pudding
Or hot apple-pye.
_Jacky Dandy's Delight_,
Worcester, 1786
CHAPTER IV
1776-1790
_Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery_
When John Mein was forced to close his London Book-Store in Boston and
to return to England in 1770, the children of that vicinity had need to
cherish their six-penny books with increased care. The shadow of
impending conflict was already deep upon the country when Mein departed;
and the events of the decade following seventeen hundred and
seventy-three--the year of the Boston Tea-Party--were too absorbing and
distressing for such trifling publications as toy-books to be more than
occasionally printed.
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