North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-29
THE .NoRrH cARoLINA REApER."


We have received copy of the g North Carolina
Reader. containing history and description of North
Carolina. selections prose and verse; historical and
chronological tales, and variety of miscellaneous
information and statistics by Calvin H. Wiley.
Esq. We quote the following Notice - of the
work by the author HIMSELF as embodying in few
words the best statement of the design and object Of
his labors:
"NoT1cE. The peculiar situation of North Caro-
lima renders necessary peculiar remedies. Hence
this, the first number of the NORTH CAROLINA READ
Readers generally; and is intended exclusively for
North Carolina, to be used in families and in schools.
Its object is to sow in the young minds Of North
carolina the seeds of true, healthy, and vigorous
North Carolina spirit; and that it may effect its end,
it is designed for universal in the State, to go,
with the Bible and the Almanac, into every home.
The other numbers of the series will be intended ex
ciusivey for schools; and the author promises that
his series of schoolbooks shall be, whole, cheap
er than any other series in the United States, and
comPlete, while he hopes. though he will not prom
Use. that his system will be as well adapted to the
ends in view. He has laid in library of Readers,
all of which will be carefully consulted. The follow
Ing extract of letter to the author, from distin-
guished and patriotic of North Carolina, discos-
es the plan and indicates the necessity of the
work:
THE design of your Reader must, think, win
for it the favourable regard Of all North CARROLL
mans. Something of the kind has long been need
ed to set before youth easy and correct STAN
daTd by which to learn appreciate the worth of their
fatherland-to excite in them pride of country, and
to embue their minds with the great truth that that
country is entitled to their best exertions in her be-
half.
We are too much in the habit of looking abroad
for objects of Arbitration and where they are found
there also will the affections take hold. Providence
mas been as kind to US as to any other people-His
bounties have been scattered in midst with as
much munihcence as elsewhere and they need only
that culture necessary TO their
to mans use, to elevate good old State that
rank and consequence which her intellectual and phys
ical resources should long since have given her.
Should 1t be your happy lot to reform the habit al
luded to, and to awaken in land proper sense of
these truths, all praise and abundant reward will be
your due. WELDON N. EDWARDS
July ID, 1851"
We have examined this work with some attention,
and it affords pleasure say, that in our judgment
the author has entitled himself to the "praise and
abundant reward alluded in the above letter of
Mr.. Edwards. The North Carolina Reader ~ is
emphaticaIly North Carolina book. 1t teens with
of fatherIand its facts, its appeals
patriotism, its descriptions of localities and
ry, its delneaons of the noble virtues of our peo-
pie, its rapid but glowing sketches of the history and
resources of the State, and the selections in prose
and verse which il contains, must commend it to the
public appreciation and for it general cir
Cuidon especially duong te rising generation Wlln-
in our borders.
1t is scarcely necessary that we should go into a
particular description of the contents of this work. as
we take it for granted that it will be generally sought
for and read but may give extracts from it here
after, space will permit.
The gratifying reception given to COL Wheeler's
Sketches OF the State and the demand which is des-
lined to spring up for this work by Mr. Wiley, will
show that people take deep interest in every
hing designed TO revive recolections of ances-
ors and their glorious deeds; and that they are
keenly alive all efforts which made to develop
he mind of the State, and to establish literature,
which, both in its tone and in the subjects of which
i treats, shall be peculiarly Mr.. Wiley has
abored for years in this cause and the ia
7orable reception which will be given to the IS North
olna Reader may encourage him to still further
Efforts to be useful in his day and generation.
We learn, from the iitle-page, that the =" North
Carolina Reader" will be for sale by Agents, Mer-
hants, and Booksellers in all the Counties of the
State.