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SOME ANCIENT SCHOOL BOOKS
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untruth and- anti-climax by saying
that in spite of its vastnesa 'it la
said that the Indians have sometimes
passed down it in their canoes in
safety."
Here are some samples of the book
that I remember:
'Tis education forms the common
mind:
Just as the twig is bent .the tree's
inclined. ' ' ' .
"Agesilaus, king of Sparta, being
asked what things- he thought m6st"
proper for boys to learn, answered,
'Those which they ought to practice
when they become men.' "
An earthquake may be bid to spare
The man who's strangled by a hair.
Queer Old Arithmetics
Murray's Grammar was excellent,
but its circulation could .not compare
with that of the English Reader. 6t
arithmetics there were no end. Pike's
was a "big octavo, and began its ca
reer in the eighteenth century. It
was really 'a whole compendium of
mathematics. Daboll's .perhaps is
now the best remembered of the mul
tiplied kinds. Colburn's was noted,
and Smith's began almost In the
cradle by asking the kindergartner,
"How many little fingers have you
on your right hand?" And how
many on your left hand? Nathan
Daboll was a born mathematician and
his problems were no easy nuts to
crack, as a great number of the
book's patrons still remember. iLike
many school books, it was bound in
full leather, iwhile Webster's Spelling
Book had. .usually blue-papered, board,
covers backed by red cloth, A which
became almost a trade-mark0 DaboJl
called his book "The Schoolmaster's
Assistant," with the addition of
"The Practical Accountant, or Farm
ers' and Mechanics' Best Method of
Bookkeeping.." The latter depart
ments were furnished by Samuel
Green.
Arithmetic Problems in Verse
Jacob "Willetts" Arithmetic-', was
the product of a Quaker .teacher in
Dutches county, who also made a.
geography and other works. The
arithmetic had great favor and was
considered easier than Daboll's.
Nearly all the old arithmetics put
tneir nrooiems usuallv in farms nf
pounds, shillings and pence, down to
about 1850. In Willetts's Arithmetic
no one will forget who has studied
it this example:
When first the marriage knot was"
tied .
Between my wife and me,
My age, was to that of my bride '
As three times three to three;
But now when ten and half ten years
We man and wife have been,
Her age to mine exactly bears
As eight is to sixteen. .
Now toll, I pray, from what I've said,
What were our ages when we wed.
Ans. Thy age when married must
have been "
Just forty-five, thy wife's
fifteen.
This was not exactly a case of De
cember and May, but it was pretty
nearly one of September and the
latter month, bringing golden-rod
and lilacs together. Willetts helped
Goold Brown on his grammar and
was the head of a noted school to
the working end of his life. One of
his assistant teachers, Augustus R.
Mcuord, a county superintendent of
schools In Dujtchess county when that
office existed, revised Willetts's
Arithmetic in the middle of the last
century, putting it also in boards
instead of leather. Willetts's school
books and many others bore this al
literative imprint: "Printed and Pub
lished by Paracleto Potter, Pough-
.keepsie, N.- Y-.'.; This Potter was 1
brother of the older bishops of that
name. - ;
Noalr Webster's Son
Not every We knows that there
was a sequel to Webster's Spelling
Book, made by his son, W. G. Web
ster, and a motto in it, under tho
portrait of Noah Webster, reads thus
"Who taught millions to read, but
none to sin.' Nothing can better
give the spirit in which the old
school books Were written, for they
were nearly all1 hortatory and didac
tic, even when they dealt with figures
chiefly. There, was an introduction
and also a sequel to tho English
Reader, but thoir school use was
'limited.
There were in vogue, as geogra
phies, Morse's, Smith's and Olney's
among others. But very early in the
nineteenth century there was a htigo
geography by an elder Morse (Jede
diah Morse, I believe), which con
tained remarkably frank matter, and
some relating to the social customs
of certain nations that modern taste
would distinctly f roVrn upon. It is
a curious fact In ."reference to tho old
geography map'sr-those made In the
early part of theilast century that
they populated; by definite town
marks and described with mountains,
lakes and rivers the most unknown
parts of, the Interior of Africa. If
our. ex-president in his big-game hunt
should take onatof these along as a
geographical guide: he would dis
cover, to use MJbsh Billings' " locu
tion, "a good ninjiiy things that ain't
Some of thoGcfod Old 'Pieces"
Ij?houldhaye!feaid before this that
there werecomretitors-tb the English
Reader. The Columbian Orator, by
kr
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