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.

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82804

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US William H. Moore & Co.

en_US Cincinnati

Subject

en_US PE1117.S26 1844

en_US Reader

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole