tailieunhanh - Forgotten Books of the American Nursery

An examination of their contents shows them to be equally foreign to present day ideas as to the desirable characteristics for children's literature. Yet the crooked black type and crude illustrations of the wholly religious episodes related in the oldest volumes on the shelf, the didactic and moral stories with their tiny type-metal, wood, and copper-plate pictures of the next groups; and the "improving" American tales adorned with blurred colored engravings, or stiff steel and wood illustrations, that were produced for juvenile amusement in the early part of the nineteenth century,--all are as interesting to the lover of children as they are unattractive to the modern. | Forgotten Books of the American Nursery by 1 CHAPTER PAGE Part II published in Boston by CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VII Chapters Forgotten Books of the American Nursery by Rosalie V. Halsey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book Author Rosalie V. Halsey CHAPTER PAGE 2 Release Date February 25 2006 eBook 17857 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN NURSERY E-text prepared by Jason Isbell Julia Miller and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 1 7 8 5 17857 17857-h or http dirs 1 7 8 5 17857 Transcriber s note A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. A complete list is found at the end of the text. FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN NURSERY A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by ROSALIE V. HALSEY Illustration The Devil and the Disobedient Child Boston Charles E. Goodspeed Co. 1911 Copyright 1911 by . Goodspeed Co. Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November 1911 by . Updike at The Merrymount Press Boston TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Introductory 3 II. The Play-Book in England 33 III. Newbery s Books in America 59 IV. Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery 89 V. The Child and his Book at the End of the Eighteenth Century 121 VI.