This work is, indeed, the first children’s picture book.
--ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA, 9TH EDITION, vi. 182.
[Publisher’s Device:
School Bulletin Publications 1874]
SYRACUSE, N.Y.:
C. W. BARDEEN, PUBLISHER,
1887.
Copyright, 1887, by C. W. BARDEEN.
It may not be generally known that Comenius was once solicited to become
President of Harvard College. The following is a quotation from Vol. II,
p. 14, of Cotton Mather’s MAGNALIA:
“That brave old man, Johannes Amos Commenius, the fame of whose
worth has been TRUMPETTED as far as more than three languages
(whereof everyone is indebted unto his JANUA) could carry it, was
indeed agreed withal, by one Mr. Winthrop in his travels through
the LOW COUNTRIES, to come over to New England, and illuminate
their Colledge and COUNTRY, in the quality of a President, which
was now become vacant. But the solicitations of the Swedish
Ambassador diverting him another way, that incomparable Moravian
became not an American.”
This was on the resignation of President Dunster, in 1654--Note of Prof.
PAYNE, Compayre’s History of Education, Boston, 1886, p. 125.