Old-time schools and school-books . ld not have been altogethersalutary; for the stories were sure to be recalledwhenever a child had to encounter alone the mysteri-ous dusk of evening or the gloom of night. Thebook has the honor to be the earliest reader to use Advanced Readers 271 illustrations, and several of the weird little picturesare here reproduced. The art of engraving aspractised in this country was very crude, and theseare fair examples of the rough-hewn primitivenessof the book illustrations of the period. Their un-couth ness was still further emphasized by the paperon which they w
Old-time schools and school-books . ld not have been altogethersalutary; for the stories were sure to be recalledwhenever a child had to encounter alone the mysteri-ous dusk of evening or the gloom of night. Thebook has the honor to be the earliest reader to use Advanced Readers 271 illustrations, and several of the weird little picturesare here reproduced. The art of engraving aspractised in this country was very crude, and theseare fair examples of the rough-hewn primitivenessof the book illustrations of the period. Their un-couth ness was still further emphasized by the paperon which they were printed, for all the paper ofearly American manufacture was inferior, and verylittle, even of the best, was of a snowy first picture in Websters book illustrated the Story of Columbus, and I suppose that is Colum-bus himself waving his hat from the mast-head. Thesea has a very lively appearance, and there is somedoubt whether the artist has delineated an expanse ofwhite-capped waves or a multitude of leaping A Christian Indian getting the Best of a Heathen Indian,From Websters The Little Readers Assistant. The text accompanying the picture of the twoIndians says the individual behind the rock was 272 Old-time Schools and School-books
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