The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-09
REVIEW OF BOOKS.
THE NEW AMERICAN READERS.

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3 McMinnville Southern STANDARD, ant
e one of the: most thorough anc
e successful educators in the State, hal
. this editorial notice of one of the
: series of school books published by
J. II. Butler & Co., Philadelphia
Pa, for which Mr.. John w. Paulett
of Knoxville, is the general South
ern agent:
In the last issue we laid down the
justly recognized 'methOd" of ac-
quiring knowledge to be a procedure
from the knorn to the unkn01cn,
and showed that the New American
Spoilers were made to accord with
that ''method. And we now pre-
sent the New American Readers as
graduated series of readers on the
same plan, beginning with what the
beginner knows and leading him
| by graduated advancement into the
beautiful fields of the hitherto un-
known. This series of readers, like
the spoilers, was compiled and pub
lished for this age, out Of fresh and
current matter adapted to this gen
Grafton, and not for past age, nor
out Of obsolete matter The best
farmers four country seek the best
and latest improved farm imple-
ments; and hence you never see
one Of them blowing with the "plow
of the daddies," but with the best |
approved patterns of to-day. Shall |
the teacher be behind the plowman !
If it be necessary in cultivating the
soil that the latest and best methods
should be employed, is it not more
so in the cultivation of mind? Who
will doubt this?
In addition to the usual directions
for reading according to the old !
method, these Readers, by means of
the reading chart, teach the method
of 1COrd reading by beginning with
the beginner to teach him to read,
just where the mother left off teach
ing him to speak She taught him
to speak by giving him aCh0te aCOrdS,
not syllables first and then the word
entire; in like manner these Read ,
ers present him the picture of the
object, and then it's name as a aUOrd.
For example: The picture OF a dog .
s presented and the name given as :
| word to be read as a Word, dog. =,
is analysis into the letters d, o, 2, +
5 subsequent step. These Read +
rs begin with the word dog as a
TOrd because the learner knows .
aore about the ,cord than he does -
he letters required to represent it, r
nd proceeding from what he knows 7
bout the word to its combinations n
l q sentence and then its resolution r
ito the three letters d, 0, G, they o
,ad him with his consent into a E
Of much that he did not io
now before. Let US now take the II
ord cat The learner finds here a r.
icture and the name of an object o.
lat he has known from bis first =,
now associate with n,
us the two words I and see, both q
which he already knows, and you n,
ZEN require him to read these 1U0rdS 81
us: | see cat. Then thus: Cat ~,
es me. He is now talking these II
Ords on paper in the same way he Do
armed to talk them from his moth or.
s lips. If this is not natural and ~,
sy, and consequently the oCay, then ho
mothers change the method no
le learner is now using what little co
knows and in such a way as to wi
low more. lac
After he has mastered these 1cordS. M,
EN- let him look into the words tTy
d see what they are made Of lie
lus cat is made of the letters, C, a, t, ~,
1nded k, a, t. Now, when he has co1
lrned the sound of ga in this So
nd, give him a number of other ,nf
'rds in which a has the same Az
md; as man, ran, rat, &C., thus on
ding knowledge to the kn0lcn till 90,
stock is sufficient to commence
siness for himself.
This is the plan of the New Amer III
n Readers until the chronological
ader is reached, which is the sixth =,
d last book in the series; and it VII
n deed and in truth a finishing, a,
well as a finished, Reader. In WI wa
dition to the most select and choice Id
,ces in our literature as reading WI
sons, it presents the "Principles cmul m
Elocution," a treatise on city am am
logy," "Prefxes and Sufixes of "o
glish words, :" "Saxon Roots with 4
glish Derivatives" "Latin Roots :
ii English Derivatives" +" Greek COZ COZ
OTIS with English Derivatives" car "a
irections of Teachers" and Bio a aLl'
lphical Index of Authors from Oul
ON selections have been made. ah'
# call is well that ends we'll" 1o0l
5 series of Readers is certainly ear t
best, for no book published an Is Is !
ers its purpose any better as a LA; has
shing book of a series than the hI hIn
W American chronological Read Ne 5i,
which is a compendium of liter aus aus
re itself. ahC