Item
The School Reader: Third Book
- Title
- en_US The School Reader: Third Book
- en_US Sanders Series
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Charles W. Sanders
- Creator
- en_US Sanders, Charles W. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:10:24Z
- en_US 2011-07
- en_US 1844
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:10:24Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1844
- Abstract
- en_US There are a number of acknowledged fables among the hundred-and-one Lessons here. The first is The Groom and the Horse (41), which is new to me and seems to say that he who seems to promise food without offering it is a deceiver. Other fables include The Squirrel and the Weasel (55, illustrated); The Peacock and the Oyster (67); GA (86); The Maiden and the Tulip Bulb (123); The King and the Hawk (128, illustrated); Nature and Education (157); The Ant and Caterpillar (167); The Honey-Guide and the Bear (217); and The Silk-Worm's Will (229). Nature and Education may be all too typical of these fables. I believe that such personifications do not engage a reader. Better are The Ant and Caterpillar and The Honey-Guide and the Bear; they build nicely off of natural phenomena. The King and the Hawk is frequently in the standard western corpus of fables: the hawk dashes a cup from the king's hand because he knows it contains poison. All in all, this is a good sample reader from the first half of the nineteenth century. The half-page illustrations are infrequent and occur among fables with only the two named above. Both the book's covers are loose. The book's overall condition is fair to poor.
- Identifier
- en_US 7538 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US William H. Moore & Co.
- en_US Cincinnati
- Subject
- en_US PE1117.S26 1844 See all items with this value
- en_US Reader See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books