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The contrast between the dainty picture books that are provided to entice the school children of the present along the paths of knowledge, and the sparsely illustrated volumes conned by the little folk of two or three generations ago, is very great; and yet the old books seemed beautiful to the children then, and the charm all comes back when a person of middle age or beyond happens on one of these humble friends of his youth. What an aroma of the far-gone days of childhood hovers in the yellow pages ! The scenes in the schoolroom rise in the memory, one is young again, and has in gentle illusion the same feelings and the same juvenile companions as of old.
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OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS- Index
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Frontispiece
A Schoolmaster of Long Ago
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Introductory Note
page - 0007
Contents
From Paul Preston's Book of Gymnasties, 1847
List of Illustrations
page - 0011
page - 0012
page - 0013
page - 0014
page - 0015
page - 0016
page - 0017
page - 0018
page - 0019
page - 0020
page - 0021
page - 0022
A Melancholy Scene. From Town's Second Reader, 1848
Beginnings - 0101
page - 0102
grammar schools - 0103
page - 0104
method of paying the master - 0105
tuition fees - 0106
page - 0107
The meeting-house - 0108
schoolhouse - 0109
warming the schoolrooms - 0110
page - 0111
emphasis laid on religious instruction - 0112
page - 0113
text-book equipment - 0114
page - 0115
Cheever's - 0116
page - 0117
Colloquies of Corderius - 0118
page - 0119
Puritan epoch - 0120
page - 0121
England's Perfect School-Mafter - 0122
page - 0123
page - 0124
The dame school - 0125
A Typical Hornbook - 0126
Revolving Alphabet - 0127
page - 0128
Colonial Schools of the Eighteenth Century - 0129
page - 0130
page - 0131
page - 0132
page - 0133
page - 0134
Log Schoolhouses - 0135
page - 0136
Inkstand, Sandbox, and Bunch of Uncut Quills - 0137
goose-quills - 0138
Homemade Copy Book with a Wall-pap - 0139
handwriting - 0140
page - 0141
page - 0142
The ferule - 0143
page - 0144
The History of Genesis - 0145
page - 0146
page - 0147
A Tree of Knowledge - 0148
page - 0149
A New Guide to the English Tongue - 0150
page - 0151
page - 0152
page - 0153
page - 0154
page - 0155
page - 0156
page - 0157
page - 0158
British Instructor - 0159
WATTS's Compleat SPELLING-BOOK - 0160
The Defcription of a good Boy - 0161
page - 0162
page - 0163
page - 0164
page - 0165
page - 0166
page - 0167
page - 0168
The New England Primer - 0169
page - 0170
page - 0171
page - 0172
page - 0173
page - 0174
page - 0175
page - 0176
page - 0177
page - 0178
Picture Alphabet of Religious Jingles - 0179
Alphabet including both Religious and Secular Jingles - 0180
page - 0181
page - 0182
page - 0183
page - 0184
page - 0185
The Butterfly and Crocodile - 0186
page - 0187
page - 0188
The Royal Primer - 0189
The Rewards of Virtue - 0190
page - 0191
page - 0192
Human Frailty - 0193
The Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism - 0194
page - 0195
page - 0196
page - 0197
page - 0198
page - 0199
The District Schools - 0200
page - 0201
page - 0202
Old-time District Schoolhouse - 0203
page - 0204
A Teacher's Desk. - 0205
Benches for the Older Pupils - 0206
page - 0207
page - 0208
page - 0209
Slate, Inkstand, Writing-sand, and Ink-powder - 0210
page - 0211
page - 0212
page - 0213
page - 0214
Peter Parley - 0215
Malte-Brun School Geography - 0216
page - 0217
page - 0218
page - 0219
Ichabod Crane - 0220
page - 0221
A Salem Reward of Merit - 0222
page - 0223
page - 0224
William Biglow - 0225
page - 0226
Boarding Round in Vermont - 0227
page - 0228
page - 0229
page - 0230
page - 0231
page - 0232
page - 0233
Whipping-post - 0234
Grammar Schools and Academies - 0235
page - 0236
page - 0237
page - 0238
page - 0239
page - 0240
page - 0241
page - 0242
page - 0243
page - 0244
page - 0245
New England life - 0246
academies- 0247
page - 0248
page - 0249
decay of the academies - 0250
Fly-leaf Scribblings - 0251
Dilworth's Schoolmaster's Assistant - 0252
page - 0253
page - 0254
page - 0255
page - 0256
page - 0257
page - 0258
page - 0259
page - 0260
page - 0261
page - 0262
A Basket of Eggs - 0263
page - 0264
page - 0265
A Fly-leaf Animal - 0266
Noah Webster and his Spelling-book - 0267
page - 0268
page - 0269
Mary Lyon - 0270
page - 0271
page - 0272
page - 0273
page - 0274
The Elementary Spelling-book - 0275
page - 0276
page - 0277
page - 0278
page - 0279
page - 0280
page - 0281
page - 0282
page - 0283
page - 0284
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Other Spelling-books - 0285
Caleb Bingham - 0286
page - 0287
page - 0288
Improprieties in Pronunciation - 0289
page - 0290
page - 0291
page - 0292
page - 0293
page - 0294
page - 0295
page - 0296
page - 0297
page - 0298
page - 0299
page - 0300
page - 0301
page - 0302
The New England Spelling-book- 0303
page - 0304
Comly's A New Spelling-book - 0305
page - 0306
page - 0307
page - 0308
page - 0309
page - 0310
page - 0311
page - 0312
page - 0313
page - 0314
page - 0315
page - 0316
page - 0317
Picket's Juvenile Spelling-book - 0318
page - 0319
Bolles's Spelling-book - 0320
page - 0321
page - 0322
page - 0323
page - 0324
page - 0325
page - 0326
page - 0327
page - 0328
page - 0329
page - 0330
page - 0331
page - 0332
Primary Readers - 0333
page - 0334
page - 0335
page - 0336
page - 0337
page - 0338
page - 0339
page - 0340
page - 0341
page - 0342
page - 0343
Worcester's A Second Book for Reading and Spellings - 0344
page - 0345
page - 0346
page - 0347
page - 0348
page - 0349
page - 0350
page - 0351
page - 0352
page - 0353
page - 0354
page - 0355
page - 0356
page - 0357
page - 0358
page - 0359
page - 0360
page - 0361
page - 0362
page - 0363
page - 0364
Advanced Readers - 0365
page - 0366
page - 0367
page - 0368
page - 0369
The Little Reader's Assistant - 0370
page - 0371
page - 0372
page - 0373
page - 0374
page - 0375
page - 0376
page - 0377
page - 0378
page - 0379
page - 0380
page - 0381
page - 0382
page - 0383
page - 0384
page - 0385
page - 0386
page - 0387
page - 0388
The Common Reader, by T. Strong - 0389
page - 0390
Pierpont's The National Reader - 0391
The General Class-Book - 0392
page - 0393
page - 0394
page - 0395
page - 0396
page - 0397
page - 0398
page - 0399
page - 0400
Arithmetics - 0401
page - 0402
page - 0403
page - 0404
page - 0405
Federal Money - 0406
The Youth's Assistant - 0407
Walsh's Mercantile Arithmetic - 0408
page - 0409
Science of Numbers made Easy, by Leonard Loomis - 0410
Vulgar, Decimal, and Logarithmical Arithmetick," by Beriah Stevens - 0411
page - 0412
page - 0413
page - 0414
page - 0415
page - 0416
page - 0417
The First American Geography - 0418
Jedidiah Morse - 0419
page - 0420
page - 0421
page - 0422
page - 0423
page - 0424
page - 0425
page - 0426
page - 0427
page - 0428
page - 0429
page - 0430
page - 0431
page - 0432
page - 0433
page - 0434
page - 0435
page - 0436
Later Geographies - 0437
page - 0438
page - 0439
page - 0440
page - 0441
page - 0442
page - 0443
Cummings's Geography, 1814 - 0445
page - 0446
page - 0447
Adams's Geography, 1818 - 0448
page - 0449
page - 0450
page - 0451
page - 0452
page - 0453
page - 0454
Peter Parley's Method of telling about Geography - 0455
page - 0456
page - 0457
page - 0458
page - 0459
page - 0460
page - 0461
page - 0462
Grammars, Histories, and Minor Text - 0463
Caleb Bingham - 0464
page - 0465
page - 0466
page - 0467
page - 0468
page - 0469
page - 0470
Frost's Easy Exercises in Composition - 0471
page - 0472
page - 0473
page - 0474
page - 0475
page - 0476
page - 0477
page - 0478
page - 0479
The Young American by S. G. Goodrich- 0480
page - 0481
page - 0482
page - 0483
page - 0484
page - 0485
page - 0486
page - 0487
page - 0488
page - 0489
page - 0490
page - 0491
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