Cautionary Tales – review

Howard Assembly Rooms, LeedsThere are many reasons why you might encourage children to go to the opera: enchantment, education, the beginnings of a lifelong interest in music. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to receive a reprimand for going; but then Hilaire Belloc's moralistic Cautionary Tales delivers a peculiarly fascinating form of telling off.Published in 1907 and never out of print since, Belloc's Cautionary Tales Designed for the Admonition of Children between the Ages of Eight a...

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