Independent fourth reader : containing a practical treatise on elocution, illustrated with diagrams; select and classified readings and recitations; with copious notes, and complete supplementary index

Date:

[1876]

Author:

Watson, J. Madison (James Madison), 1827-1900, author.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH W3383 I53 1876 LOCAL

Publisher:

A.S. Barnes & Company

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

Special Collections' copy inscribed, 1879. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

A.S. Barnes (NY), c. 1868, 1876; preface dated 1876, inscribed 1879; Independent National series; 'containg a practical treatise on elocution, illustrated with diagrams, select and classified readings and recitations, with copious notes, and complete supplementary [word] index'; includes adaptations of prose by Andersen, Ingelow, Bayard Taylor, Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Dickens, Elijah Kellogg , Irving and a version of 'The Little Hero of Haarlem' (finger in the dyke story), p. 135-137; spine titles and design stamped in gold on brown leather, front and back cover design and company logo blind stamped on dark brown cloth

Subjects:

Readers Juvenile literature and Readers

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile works