Old-time schools and school-books . uctive andamusing pictures con-sisted of twelvehalf-page steel en-gravings made to accompany the stories. The authorsays of his system that he is trying to make agree-able a subject naturally dry and tedious in the sameway that the skilful apothecary gilds his pill andcolors the otherwise nauseous draught. Eachchapter takes a part of speech, and the narrative inthat chapter has that part of speech printed in italicsas often as it occurs. These emphatic words occurso often they make the text pages look very how effective this method is ca
Old-time schools and school-books . uctive andamusing pictures con-sisted of twelvehalf-page steel en-gravings made to accompany the stories. The authorsays of his system that he is trying to make agree-able a subject naturally dry and tedious in the sameway that the skilful apothecary gilds his pill andcolors the otherwise nauseous draught. Eachchapter takes a part of speech, and the narrative inthat chapter has that part of speech printed in italicsas often as it occurs. These emphatic words occurso often they make the text pages look very how effective this method is can be judged fromthe specimen which follows : — The ship sails smoothly. The cars go swiftly. From Enoch Ponds Murrays Grammar. 368 Old-time Schools and School-books THE ROBBER AND LITTLE ANN. Some few years back, a poor man, living on one of themoors in the North of England, whilst busily employed incutting turf, was cruelly beaten by an impious man, becausehe would not give him his watch and the little money hehad in his The The Little Grammarian, 1 829. His little girl (about three years old) had been to visithim, and was asleep on a bed of heath at the time her fatherwas attacked ; but his cries awoke her just in time to catcha sight of the barbarous thief, as he turned away from themangled and almost lifeless body of her parent. Poor littleAnn cried most bitterly as she assisted her poor father inhis efforts to reach home, which, after more than an hourstoil, he accomplished. A year or two later little Ann saw the assailant at an innand ran into her fathers hut in great affright, and called Grammars, Histories, and Minor Text-books 369 out, as she swooned away, I have seen the man ; moreshe could not say for tears and faintness. Her mother saidto her husband, Did you not hear her say the man ? If
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