Old-time schools and school-books . Children, like tender oziers, take the bow,And as they first are fashioned always -what we learn in youth, to that alone,In age wc are by second nature prone. of 1828. Published by the firm which later became famousas the publishers of Websters Dictionary. rudely engravedportrait of the reign-ing English monarchwas customary until the Revolution, when one oranother of the American patriots had the the war Washington was the favorite frontis-piece character. Sometimes a school scene wassubstituted, as in the cut reproduced from theBrookfi
Old-time schools and school-books . Children, like tender oziers, take the bow,And as they first are fashioned always -what we learn in youth, to that alone,In age wc are by second nature prone. of 1828. Published by the firm which later became famousas the publishers of Websters Dictionary. rudely engravedportrait of the reign-ing English monarchwas customary until the Revolution, when one oranother of the American patriots had the the war Washington was the favorite frontis-piece character. Sometimes a school scene wassubstituted, as in the cut reproduced from theBrookfield edition. This same picture is to be The New England Primer found in a Boston book of 1791, but theunderneath it was — The School-Mam, fee, whofe only care,Is to inftruct her tender youth, How they may vices ways beware, And tread the fteps of peace and truth. 75verse THE PRIMER, OR AN EASY a:nd pleasant GUIDE T& THE ART OF READING, TO WHICH IS ADDED, ) , THE CATECHISM. CQJYCOUD,jV. m. 1 •«yBM8HKD Asra-aogD by w. r. aiii, at vnagp vom. *V -8T9Bf—181*. A Title-page. 76 Old-time Schools and School-books Every primer had a page devoted to the alphabet,followed by two pages of those curious word frag-ments, ab, eb, ib, ob, ub, etc., which the bookitself calls Easy syllables for Children. Thencame three pages of words grading up from those of one syllable to a-Easy syllables for Children. bo-mi-na-ti-onBa be bi bo bu and a few others of six syllables. 1 herest of the book isalmost entirely areligious and moralmiscellany of verseand prose gatheredfrom all sorts ofsources. Prominentin this miscellany isa picture alphabet—a series of twenty-four tiny pictures,each accompaniedby a two or three linejingle. Apparentlytwo of the letters areslighted, but notreally — for it wascustomary to teachthat J was simply I with another name, and thatU and V were likewise identical. One must grantthat the pictures are expressive in spite of theirdiminutive si
Size: 1797px × 1390px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublis, booksubjecteducation
