[41] In education, the influence of Froebel, in direct descent from
Rousseau, is to be considered.
[42] D. N. B.--Dictionary of National Biography.
[43] The student who desires to investigate the history of American
school-books will find much valuable material in the Watkinson Library
of Hartford, Conn., to which institution Dr. Henry Barnard’s entire
collection of school-books was left. _Vide_ Bibliotheca Americana,
Catalogue of American Publications, including reprints and original
works, from 1820 to 1852, inclusive, together with a list of
periodicals published in the United States, compiled and arranged by
Orville A. Roorbach, N. Y., Oct., 1852. Includes Supplement to 1849
ed., published in 1850.
_Vide_ also Early English School-books. Educational Library, South
Kensington Museum.
[44] _Vide_ Recollections of a Life-time; or, Men and Things I have
Seen: in a series of familiar Letters to a Friend. Historical,
Biographical, Anecdotal, and Descriptive. S. G. Goodrich. (2 vols.)
New York, 1857. [Contains a valuable list of the real Parley books;
also the names of the spurious Parleys. The volumes describe many
small characteristics of American life during the early years of the
nineteenth century.]
[45] Cyclopædia.
[46] Mr. Welsh states that between 1706–1718, 550 books were published
in America, of which 84 were _not_ religious, and of these 84, 49 were
almanacs!