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Updated: June 5, 2025
If it is a school-book which you are wishing to introduce, consider well before you waste your time in preparing it, and your spirits in the vexatious work of getting it through the press; whether it is, for general use, so superior to those already published as to induce teachers to make a change in favor of yours.
"Barbara Lewthwaite," says Wordsworth, in 1843, "was not, in fact, the child whom I had seen and overheard as engaged in the poem. Within a few months after the publication of this poem I was much, surprised, and more hurt, to find it in a child's school-book, which, having been compiled by Lindley Murray, had come into use at Grasmere School, where Barbara was a pupil.
Once a start had been made, I might expect to procure other pupils, even if they could not afford to pay so lavish a price as two dollars for three lessons But alas! My happiness was not to last long. I was giving Nodelman his fifth lesson. We were spelling out some syllables in a First Reader. Presently he grew absent-minded and then, suddenly pushing the school-book from him, said: "Too late!
"It's not a school-book, there's not a picture in it, it's full of talking fancy being here with that rubbish, when you might be fishing with me!" Gilian snatched the volume from him. "You don't know anything about it!" he cried. "I know you at any rate," said Young Islay craftily.
'There is a reason for everything, he says. 'The miracles and ghosts of one generation are just school-book learning to the next; and more of a miracle than the miracles themselves." "Chauncey shows his sense," Mrs. Bogardus observed. "He was real disturbed, though, I could see; and he told me particular not to make any talk about it. I never have opened the subject to a living soul.
Exertions of the aged survivors. Schreiber, superintendant, arrives. Anxiety of the native Christians to attend the ordinances of religion. Advantages of the Bible as a school-book. Four missionaries unexpectedly carried to England. Baptized Esquimaux seduced by traders. Perilous voyage of the returning missionaries. striking accident.
She was alone, and, holding a school-book in her hand, was at work with one of the morning's lessons. She hardly noticed him as he entered, being very busy with her book, and he paused a moment before speaking, and looked at her with a kind of reverence. It would not have been strictly true to call her beautiful.
Another cogent reason for using the Bible as a common school-book is, that it is the firmest basis, and, indeed, the only sure basis of our free institutions, and, as such, ought to be familiar to all the children in the state from their earliest years.
About this time cheap editions of the great oratorios began to appear, and Ernest got them all as soon as they were published; he would sometimes sell a school-book to a second-hand dealer, and buy a number or two of the "Messiah," or the "Creation," or "Elijah," with the proceeds.
The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a school-book, can be registered.
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