. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Copy-rijM 1: •? su PEN-FLODRISHING, AND ONE OF ITS MOST ORIGINAL i ;^ Cx— AXY READERS of tii
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Copy-rijM 1: •? su PEN-FLODRISHING, AND ONE OF ITS MOST ORIGINAL i ;^ Cx— AXY READERS of tiiis page willremember the time when theWriting-School was an insti-tution that came and went in therural villages almost as regularlyas one season followed were the days when theyouth of the land were dependentupon the master of the dis-trict school for a copy tofollow in their writing. Thatwas the time when the goose-quill flourished, and the indi-vidual was held in high esteemwho possessed the genius tomake a first-class pen. In those years, the writing-teacher traveled from town totown, and secured excellentpatronage from the fact that thewriting-school was the onlyplace where the student couldwith certainty learn to write. The writing-master wasusually a stranger in town, and,upon his arrival, various werethe devices that he was com-pelled to resort to in order toorganize his classes. Prominent among these was an elaboratedisplay of penmanship, pen-drawing and nourishing, in the shape ofs])ecimens, which were exhibited at the post-oftice a
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