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EARLY ILLUSTRATED SCHOOL BOOKS.

We shall avail ourselves of recent applications of Photography to transferring engravings to electrotypes, ready to be used in ordinary type printing, to give our readers exact impressions from the illustrations of some of the earliest school books. We have before us a little book of about the size of the "New England Primer Improved," with the following title,

"A GUIDE FOR THE CHILD AND YOUTH, IN TWO PARTS. The first for Chil dren: containing plain and pleasant directions to read ENGLISH; with Prayers, Graces, and Instructions, fitted for the capacity. The second for Youth: Teaching to write, Cast Accounts, and Read more perfectly; with several other Varieties, both pleasant and profitable. By T. H., M. A., Teacher of a private school. London: 1762."

In his Address "to the Parents, or others," Mr. T. H., says: "When I consider how Ignorance of late had prevailed amongst the Vulgar, and how those who never learned anything themselves, will yet pretend to teach others; I was almost at a loss whether I should proceed in this small but useful Tract. But since a blessed Sunshine hath appeared in our Horizon, I resolved to publish it for the use and Benefit of Children, and those of riper years." This is followed by "The Capital Roman Letters;" "The Small Roman Letters ;" "The Vowels," "The Consonants;" "Double Letters;" "The Great Italick Letters ;" "The Small Italick;" "Syllables, ab, eb, ib, ob, ub, and ba, be, bi, bo, bu, by, &c. ;" which is followed by a page of "The Dutiful Child's Promises," viz. :

"I will fear God and honour my King.

I will honour my Father and Mother.

I will obey my Superiors.

I will submit to my Elders.

I will love my Friends.

I will hate no Man.

I will forgive my Enemies, and pray to God for them."

Then follows the illustrated Alphabet for "The Child's Guide," which is again introduced as "The Youth's Guide," with extracts mainly from the Bible. We combine the two in the following pages. The illustrations, as well as the rhymes, were either copied from, or suggested by "The New England Primer Improved," or else introduced into the latter from "The Guide," or else both were copied or suggested from an earlier original, which we have not the facilities at hand for determining. The illustrations were copied for this

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Queen Esther came in Royal State,

To save the Jews from dismal

fate.

When the King saw Esther the Queen, he held out the golden Scepter which was in his hand.

R.

Rachel doth mourn For her first-born.

S.

Samuel auoints Whom God appoints.

T.

Time cuts down all Both great and small,

U.

Uriah's beautious Wife, Made David seek his Life.

In Rama was a voice Rachel weep

heard, ing, &c.

Samuel took a vial of Oil, and poured it on Saul's head, and kissed him.

Time and Patience teach all men to live content: or Time is life's best Counsellor. Arist.

When the Wife of Uriah heard that her Husband was dead, she mourned, and afterwards she became David's Wife.

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THE CHILD'S BEHAVIOUR FROM MORNING TO NIGHT.

First in the Morning when thou dost
awake,

To God for his Grace thy Petition make.
Some heavenly Prayer use daily to say,
And the God of Heaven will bless thee
alway.

Child, after thou hast prayed to God for
his Assistance, observe these following

Rules.

Down from thy Chamber when as thou shalt go,

Thy Parents salute & the household also. Thy Hands see thou wash, thy Head also comb;

Keep clean thy apparel both abroad and
at home.

This done,thy Satchel, & thy Books take;
And to the School haste thou do make.

At going to School.

In going your way, and passing the street,
Thy Hat put off, salute those you meet.
When to the School thou shalt resort,
Salute thy Master, I do thee exhort:
Thy fellows also, in token of Love,
Lest of unkindness they thee reprove:
Learn then in thy youth, for it is too true,
It will be too late when Age doth ensue.
If thou doubt any thing, desire to be told;
It is no shame to learn, be thou never so
old.

When from School you shall take your
way,

Make haste to your home, and stay not to play :

The House then entering, in the Parents

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Be meek in thy Carriage, stare none in the Face;

First hold up your Hands, and then say
thy Grace.

The Grace being said, if able thou be
To serve at the Table, it will become
thee.

If thou canst not wait, presume in no case,
But in sitting down, to your Betters give
place.

Suffer cach Man first served to be;
For it is a point of great courtesie.
Let not thy Tongue at the Table walk;
And of no matter either jangle or talk
For Cato doth say that in old and in

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Goodness.

In the Church comely thy self well behave;

Sober in carriage, with countenance
grave.

The Lord doth call it the House of Prayer.
It must not be used as a Market or Fair

AMERICAN TEXT-BOOKS.

PART I. AUTHORS AND BOOKS.

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The Little Philosopher. Boston, 1833, ('55.)
The Little Learner-To Talk. New York, 1855.*
" To Think. New York, 1856.*
To Rend New York, 1856.*
Common Things. N. Y., 1856.*
Right and Wrong. N. Y., 1856.*
Elements of Astronomy. New York.*
Mrs. Markham's History of France. New York, 1859.
Narrative of General Course of History. (Harper's
School History.) New York, 1860.

Philosophy. See John Abercrombie.

See N. W. Fiske & J. Abbott

See the following.

ABBOTT, J. & C. E.,

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ADAM, ALEXANDER, Summary of Geography and Hist. London, (1794. 2d ed., 1797.

Roman Antiquities. Ed. by Wilson. N. Y., 1819 (2d ed., 1814, 1826. Phila., new edition, 1858.) Rudiments of Latin and English Grammar. Edin burgh, (1772.) 4th ed., 1793. Boston, 1st ed. 1799. 2d ed., 1803, (1809, '12, '14, '25.) Alb. 1st ed., 1820. N. Y., (1818.) 2d ed., 1820. (3 ed., 1826, '31, '39. New Hampshire, 1825.)** Edited by J. D. Johnson. N. Y, 3d ed., 1838, '39. New edition. By W. W. Cam.* Abridged by W. Biglow. (Elements of Latin Gram mar.) (Leominster, 1804.) Boston, 2d ed., 1811 Rudiments of Latin Grammar. Troy, 3d Am. ed. 1806. 2d ed., 1809.

Edited by C. D. Cleveland. Hartford and Phila
1836. (Phila., 1847.)

Simplified by A. Fiske. N. Y., (1822.) 2d ed., 1824
Revised by E. Fitch. Troy, 4th ed., 1814.

Improved by B. A. Gould. Boston, 1825, '27, '30
'31, '35, ('28, '30, '32, '33, 34, 36, '39.) North
ampton, 1844.

Revised by D. Patterson, N. Y., 1830, 1833. Abridged by W Russell. N. H., 1824. 2d ed., 1825.** by Wells. Boston 1843.*

Abridgement, with corrections, &c.

Boston, 1824. Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue. Edin

burgh, 2d ed., 1814.

ADAMI, C.,

Commentar zu den Relief- und Karten-Globen. Ber.,'52 ADAMS, CHARLES,

English Grammar. Boston, 1st ed., 1838.* ADAMS, C. B.

Geology. See Gray & Adams.

Common School Drawing Cards. Three Sets. N. Y.* | ADAMS, DANIEL,

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