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It was the firm's first schoolbook. In revised and enlarged form it later became the first book in the successful series of "Ray's Arithmetics." But even in those early days, books would not sell themselves unless their qualities were made known to the public. Agents had to be employed and at first Mr. Smith was his own best agent.
The story of these readers is told in the specimens of the several editions, in the long treasured and time-worn contracts, in the books of accounts kept by the successive publishers, and in the traditions which have been passed down from white haired men who gossiped of the early days in the schoolbook business.
Three in number, Johnny and Charley and Freddy, with castigating elders, even to the second and third generation back, dimly discerned through closed window-panes, they didn't at all haunt the halls of Ferrero it was a part of their homely grace and their social tone, if not of their want of the latter, that this couldn't in the least be in question for them; on the other hand they frequented, Charley and Freddy at least, the Free School, which was round in Thirteenth Street Johnny, the eldest, having entered the Free Academy, an institution that loomed large to us and that I see as towered or castellated or otherwise impressively embellished in vague vignettes, in stray representations, perhaps only of the grey schoolbook order, which are yet associated for me with those fond images of lovely ladies, "hand-painted," decorating at either end the interior of the old omnibusses.
The miscellaneous letters which show sides of him quite different from those most in evidence throughout the "Letters to his Son" are rarely read: these latter have been, at least once and probably oftener, made into a schoolbook for translation into other languages an office by no means likely to conciliate affection.
I mean soon to comply with your kind invitation to come and see you, not on the above business, but because I think of writing a schoolbook, or, at any rate, a book for the young, and should highly prize your advice as to what is wanted, and how it should be achieved.
South Harniss is my dwellin' place and I guess likely you'll have to see the minister about the rest of it. He, he, he!" His passenger, to whom the old schoolbook quatrain was entirely unknown, wondered what on earth the man was talking about. However, he smiled politely and sniffed with a dawning suspicion. It seemed to him there was an unusual scent in the air, a spirituous scent, a
Many of the newspapers in all parts of the country published notices of his death, recognizing in kindly terms the service that had been rendered the writers by the schoolbook of which he was the author. Since the McGuffey Readers became at an early day the absolute property of their publishers, they became responsible for all subsequent revisions and corrections of the books.
There were expenses for travel and for sample books, for advertising, as well as for printing and binding. The Truman and Smith team did not always pull together. Mr. Truman was not versed in the schoolbook business. Mr. Smith was. It is said that Mr. Smith went early one morning to their humble shop on the second floor of No. 150 Main street, and made two piles of sample books.
Then Fred replied: "To h-ll with you and your schoolbook! I tell you I've waded across it." The colonel smoothed things over and it ended in a magnum of champagne being ordered. "For which the colonel paid?" asked Average Jones. "Why, yes, he did," assented the saloon man. "He said, 'Well, it's a go, then. Here's luck to us! He was a good spender, the colonel."
Somewhere between 1687 and 1690 it was first published, and for a hundred years from that time it was the schoolbook found in almost every New England home and classroom. Can you imagine what kind of reading lessons were in this primer?
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