1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of several texts. The preface (A Talk with Teachers) argues that language should be taught directly, systematically, and persistently to students in the primary grades and that a textbook is a necessary tool to supplement oral instruction. It argues against the teaching of spelling and punctuation, technical grammar, pictures for stories, and poetry. Furthermore, excellence in language is attained through observation and practice, the observing of models of writing and the composing of original compositions. It focuses on: the sentence and the paragraph, chief parts and their helpers, the thought and language of the exercises, common errors, letter-writing, and opportunities for work. The Schultz Archive copy is perhaps the complete text. It contains roughly the first 253 pages of the text.
Text copyrighted in 1880 and 1894. Author credited with a Master of Arts, a Ph.D, as the President of Delaware College, Newark, Delaware, and as the author of several texts. Preface states the text uses an inductive process, teaching first the idea, then the name, and lastly the definition, followed by its application. Only the simplest and most necessary principles are discussed and illustrated. Includes the author's system of diagramming, or written analysis. Preface are recommends object lessons combined with systematic culture in language. The text also contain pictorial illustrations. The Schultz Archive includes roughly the first 83 pages.
1864 printing of 1862 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, as Principal of the Collegiate Schools, NY, and as the author of several other texts. A new and distinct system of grammar that combines practice with theory and example with precept to make the subject more interesting and teachable. The book contains fifty one short lessons, each followed by an exercise. Words are classified as parts of speech solely according to their use. A simple method of analyzing sentences is also presented as are sections on punctuation, rhetorical figures, and prosody. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 288 page text.
1864 printing of 1864 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, as Principal of the Collegiate Schools, NY, and as the author of several other texts. A grammar handbook that explains rules through question/answer format. The same system from the author's larger grammar but for young beginners. The text aims to awaken students' interest, teach them to think, enable them to understand as they learn, lead them through natural steps, and give practical application to every abstract principle. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 120 page text.
1856 printing of 1856 copyrighted text. Author is credited as the author of the English Speller. A catechistic grammar text designed to teach both meaning and application. Includes numbered questions with answers and unnumbered questions without answers. It also contains a section on punctuation, and the most important notes from Murray's Syntax with lessons in parsing and false syntax to be corrected. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 108 page text.
1878 copyrighted text. A grammar textbook with chapters on the parts of speech and kinds of sentences. It also includes models for notes and letters and exercises.The Schultz Archive copy contains the editor's preface, the index, the first fifty-seven pages, and pages 186 – 191 on exercises in false syntax.
1850 printing of 1850 copyrighted text. Preface states text is progressive in its development of principles of grammar. Text presents rules of orthography, a synopsis of parts of speech, a compend of etymology in which attributes are forcibly illustrated (with exercises in correction, conjugation, and parsing), a recapitulation of etymology covering more complex principles, a complete syntax, and a section on prosody. The author credits the influence of G. Brown, Butler, Bullions, and Wells. Schultz Archive copy includes brief preface and the first nineteen pages of Part I: Orthography.
1827 printing of 1826 copyrighted text. The author is credited as an M.D. and as author of Outlines in Botany and as Principal of Cincinnati Female Academy. A grammar written for children's capacities that doesn't rely on memorization and parsing. The text maintains the definitions of Murray, but precedes each with a lesson written as a dialogue to prepare students for the definition. Follows Pestalozzi's method of object teaching where expression follows the ideas. Schultz Archive copy includes preface and a few pages on orthography and composition.
1852 printing of 1852 copyrighted text. The author is credited as a reverend. Part of the R. E. Peterson's Cheap Educational Series. An introduction to grammar for young children that uses induction and systematic progression. Rules and definitions are inductions from given examples. Exercises follow each lesson. Part one is on parts of speech. Part two covers particulars of parts of speech. Part three covers the most important rules of syntax. Parsing exercises are used at the end of each part. There is also a list of questions for each part. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 67 page text.
1823 printing of 1823 copyrighted text. A concise text on grammar. Preface boasts of a new and systematic order of parsing (rather than memorization) and a text that blends pleasure and labor. The familiar style of the lectures use first person and directly address the reader. The text contain fourteen lectures and exercises in false syntax. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, recommendations, contents, "hints to teachers," and the first lecture. The second page of the preface and the first page of the "hints to teachers" are a bit difficult to read due to the quality of copy.
