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Excerpt from Mother Goose's Protest At a meeting of the New Century Club, of Phila delphia, lheld one afternoon in April, the subject of discussion happened to be Books That Have Helped Me. George Eliot and Miss Phelps, Humboldt and Dante, Macaulay and Mark Twain, De Quincy and Emerson, and numerous: others received their due meed of praise. Even Comly's Spelling Book and the old-fashioned Penny Books were not forgotten, but the paramount claims of '3 Mother tgoose were completely ignored. One of the members of the Club, therefore, wrote the following Protest in her behalf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.