Charles Carpenter wrote for such widely diverse publications as the Southern Agriculturist, Railway Age, and the American Mercury. He contributed features to many of the country's newspapers.
Preface
1. The Early American Schools
2. The New England Primer
3. Nineteenth-Century Primers
4. Special Primers
5. Beginning of Readers
6. Following the Initial Readers
7. The McGuffey and Contemporary Readers
8. Grammars
9. Rhetorics and Foreign Language Books
10. Arithmetics
11. Spelling Books
12. Literature Texts
13. Elocution Manuals
14. Handwriting and Copybooks
15. School Histories
16. General Science Texts
17. Physiologies and Mental Science Texts
18. Geographies
19. Progress of Schoolbook Publishing
Bibliography
Index
