OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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294 Old-time Schools and School-books
discourse like music, and to teach how to read with perfect ease and rhythm.
PART OF THE EPISCOPAL BURIAL SERVICE. FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRATER. |
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Another unusual reader of about the same date was The Christian Reader, a stout volume, entirely made up of tracts, except for a half-dozen hymns inserted at the end.
Still another peculiar reader was The Farmer s School-Book, Albany, 1837, " published to take the place of such useless, unintelligible reading as Murray's English Reader, and other readers in common use, which never give the children one useful idea for the practical business of life." The book conveys a good deal of information, but I am afraid the author was disappointed in his expectation that " Chymistry, The Nature of Manures, Raising Calves, Making and Preserving Cheese," and similar topics which filled out the list of chapters would |
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