id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-11722	Kaser, David	History of American Schoolbooks (Book Review)	1964	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1411	56	51	Con- veniently grouping schoolbooks under the various disciplines they represented-prim- ers, elocution manuals, copybooks, rhetorics, general and mental science texts, etc.-the author briefly discusses progress in the writ- ing of each from its beginning in this coun- try to the early twentieth century, relating interesting facts and anecdotes about au- thors, book use, schoolbook adoption, and giving even occasional personal commen- tary upon the appropriateness of a particular volume or style, or speculating upon the pro- spective future of the genre. Librarians who have been privileged to examine prospective gift collections of books in lofts, smokehouses, and garrets, are well acquainted with the slender little volumes, bound in overprinted olive, tan, or blue boards, that constituted early American schoolbooks.	cache/crl-11722.pdf	txt/crl-11722.txt