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100	1		_aCarnegie, Helena, Lady, _d1865-1943
245	1	4	_aThe infant moralist
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_a"[A] very clever imitation of early-Victorian poems for children. [...] The volume has all the humour of--apparent--seriousness."--The Bookman, Feb. 1904.
500			_aIllustrated by Violet Jacob.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-08-07
505	0		_aCruelty to animals -- Insensate mischief -- Charitable Louisa -- Credulity -- The consequences of greed -- Profanity -- Envy -- The school feast -- Courage -- Heartless folly -- Politeness -- The result of heedlessness -- Lawless disrespect -- Inevitable retribution -- Revenge -- Unsuitable jesting -- The chatterbox -- Solicitude -- Ill-timed levity -- Thomas and the beggar -- Offensive manners -- Contumacious Constantine -- Disobedient Emily -- Violence.
508			_aCarol Brown, Mairi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (National Library of Scotland)
520			_a"The infant moralist by Lady Helena Carnegie and Violet Jacob" is an illustrated collection of cautionary poems for children written in the early 20th century. The verses adopt a stern, didactic tone to teach manners, obedience, charity, and self-control, often through exaggerated consequences and darkly comic twists. It is essentially a book of moral instruction, using brief rhymed vignettes to contrast vice and virtue in domestic and village settings. Across a sequence of short poems, a severe adult narrator addresses children who misbehave and those who do well. Cruelty, gluttony, envy, profanity, pranks, and disobedience are met with swift, sometimes disastrous outcomes—boys fall from towers after mischief, a credulous child runs off with a caravan and is lost to his family, a grimace is fixed forever by a change of wind, a planted mouse shocks an aunt into silence, and a vicious act of revenge nearly causes a drowning. By contrast, charity, politeness, courage, and thoughtful regard for parents and elders are praised, as when a girl brings food to the poor or a boy calmly saves his sister from a wasp. The settings and incidents are everyday—school treats, parlors, gardens, lanes—yet the consequences are dramatically amplified to imprint the lesson: heed guidance, curb impulses, respect others, and avoid violence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cEdinburgh: R. Grant & Son, 1903
653			_aChildren's poetry
653			_aHumorous poetry
653			_aConduct of life -- Juvenile poetry
700	1		_aJacob, Violet, _d1863-1946
856	4		_uhttps://digital.nls.uk/128693606
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76648
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