The Monthly Repository - v. 9 Author:Leigh Hunt Volume: v. 9 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: C. Fox Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / General Religion / Christianity / Protestant Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Unitarian... more » Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE NUTCRACKER; SECOND FANTASY PIECE AFTER HOFFMAN. JHarfivtfi.-n fur grosseunto fileitu ). i Uuht: Talcs for great and small children ! Chaitob I. -- New Tear's Day. On a certain New Year's Day the children of Dr. Smallhorse were expressly forbidden to enter the front drawing-room. When the evening closed in, Frederick and Mary sat, in the dark, in a corner of the little back room, and Frederick, speaking very low and mysteriously, informed Mary, his younger sister, who was nearly seven years old, that he had heard strange noises in the locked-up chamber, and that he had seen a little black man glide out from the door, who he believed was no other than godpapa Pivot. At this communication Mary, transported with joy, clapped her little hands together and cried : ' Oh ! dear me ! how I should like to know what pretty thing1 godpapa Pivot has got for us.' Mr. Pivot, commissioner of something or other, was not a very handsome man; he was small and thin ; his face much wrinkled; the locality of his right eye covered with a great black patch ; and, having no hair, he wore a splendid, patent, white periwig. But godpapa was a very ingenious man; he understood watchwork, and it was said could even make watches. Indeed when any of Dr. Smallhorse's pretty clocks were out of order, godpapa Pivot came, took off his periwig, put on a li...« less