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Neue Fibel oder Erstes Lesebuch für die deutschen katholischen Schulen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika.
(Benziger Brothers, 1872)
This book received plenty of use! Many pages are torn; 9-10 and 23-24 are missing. Among the Lesestücke is Das Bienchen und die Taube in verse (#14 on 56). There is a page each of advertisements for Benziger ...
Drittes Lesebuch für die deutschen katholischen Schulen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika.
(Benziger Brothers, 1873)
A hefty mix of seasons, plants, animals, religion, American history, and German grammar with seven fables thrown in along the way. The foreword proudly proclaims no changes from the texts of the previous edition. Different: ...
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
(American Book Company: Reprinted by Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1879)
See my comments on the 1920 copy of the 1879 original.
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
(American Book Co. from the press of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.,American Book Company, 1879)
This book is identical with one I already have listed under 1879/1920, except that it lacks the further dates under the preface on the reverse of the title-page. Thus, if it is not from 1879, it is at least from before ...
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
(American Book Company, 1879)
Good condition. Five fables, several with rhyming morals and illustrations of historic interest. In BW (42), John loses his pet lamb along with other sheep. SW (59) is well told. The others are The Clock and the Sundial ...
Young Folks' Readings for Social and Public Entertainment.
(Boston: Lee and Shepard/NY: Charles T. Dillingham, 1876)
This book was put together after three volumes of Public and Parlor Readings met with success. The readings here are particularly for those ten to sixteen years old. T of C at the beginning. Along with such delights as ...
Fables and Legends of Many Countries Rendered in Rhyme
(James R. Osgood and Company, 1872)
I first became acquainted with Saxe through the two versions I found of his The Blind Men and the Elephant. Here Saxe labels each work by its genre. This collection contains ten stories labeled fables or apologues. The ...