INDEX

Abbott, Jacob, 201, 208, 213, 215, 218, 222, 223.

Abbott, John S. C., 129.

A, B, C Book, 101.

A, B, C of religion, 22.

Absence from Christ intolerable, 39.

Adams, John, 165.

Adams, Mrs. John, 91.

Adams, J. A., 169.

Adams, John Quincy, 196.

Addison, Joseph, 159.

Adventures of a Peg-top, 109.

Adventures of a Pincushion, 109, 111, 112.

Adventures of Lot, 206.

Aesop, 63, 66, 67, 69, 90, 101, 109.

Affectionate Daughter-in-Law, 206.

Affection’s Gift, 227.

Aikin, Dr. John, 139, 140, 163.

Ainsworth, Robert, 63.

Aitkin, Robert, 100, 101.

Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, An, 206.

Althea Vernon, 210.

American Antiquarian Society, 103.

American Flag, 148.

American Girls’ Book, 209.

American Juvenile Keepsake, 197, 200.

American Sunday School Union, 201, 202, 204.

American Weekly Mercury, 20.

Ami des Enfans, 134, 135.

Amyntor, 192.

Anderson, Dr. Alexander, 166-169, 180.

André, Major John, 97.

Andrews, Joseph, 196.

Andrews, Thomas, 102.

Anecdoten von Hunden, 178.

Anecdotes of Christian Missions, 206.

Animated Nature, 108.

Annales of Madame de Genlis, 134.

Annual Register, 163.

Anthony and Clara, 210.

Arabian Nights, 162.

Argalus & Parthenia, 90.

Arnold, Benedict, 97, 98.

Arthur’s Geographical Grammar, 99.

Art’s Treasury, 90.

Ashe, Thomas T., 207.

Ashton, John, 54.

Atlantic Stories, 210.

Avery, S., 180.

Babcock, Sidney, 167, 168.

Bache, Benjamin, 100, 101, 104, 105, 127.

Bag of Nuts ready Cracked, 107.

Bailey, Francis, 123.

Banbury Chap-Books, 53, 70, 117.

Barbauld, Anna Letitia, 127-129, 132, 140-142, 152, 155, 163, 188, 218.

Barclay, Andrew, 102, 103.

Baskerville, John, 103.

Battelle, E., 102.

Battle of the Kegs, 97.

Be Merry and Wise, 67, 106.

Beecher, Rev. Dr. Lyman, 162.

Belcher, J., 170, 171.

Bell, Robert, 75, 76, 89, 100, 101.

Benezet, Anthony, 101.

Berquin, Arnaud, 134, 159, 161.

Bewick, Thomas, 117, 118, 135, 166, 168, 169.

Bewick’s Quadrupeds, 168.

Bibliography of Worcester, 102.

Big and Little Puzzling Caps, 107.

Biography for Boys, 115.

Biography for Girls, 114, 115.

Birthday Stories, 210.

Blossoms of Morality, 165.

Blue Beard, The History of, 141, 165.

Body of Divinity versified, 22.

Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhimes for Children, 11.

Book for Boys and Girls; or, Temporal Things Spiritualized, 13.

Book of Knowledge, 90, 103.

Book of Martyrs, 10.

Books for Children, 222.

Bookseller of the last century, The, 51, 54.

Boone, Daniel, 198.

Boone, Nicholas, 17.

Boston Chronicle, 74, 75.

Boston Evening Post, 38, 43, 73.

Boston Gazette and Country Journal, 80.

Boston News Letter, 19.

Boston Public Library, 74.

Bowen, Abel, 169, 221.

Boy and his Paper of Plumbs, 12.

Boy and the Watchmaker, 12.

Boy’s Own Book, 209.

Boyle, John, 76, 77.

Bradford, Andrew, 20, 21, 126.

Bradford, Thomas, 59, 90, 100.

Brewer, printer, 167.

Brooke, Henry, 130.

Brooks, Elbridge, 215.

Brother’s Gift, 80, 111, 112.

Browne, Miss, 197.

Brynberg, Peter, 165.

Buccaneers of America, 90.

Bunyan, John, 10-13.

Burr, Aaron, 132-134.

Burr, Theodosia, 132, 133.

Burton, R., 36, 37.

Burton’s Historical Collections, 36.

Busy Bee, 187.

Butcher, Elizabeth, 21, 40, 186.

Butterworth, Hezekiah, 132.

Cadet’s Sister, 210.

Cameron, Lucy Lyttleton, 152, 184.

Canary Bird, The, 172.

Carey, Matthew, 165, 206.

Carey, Robert, 72.

Carnan, Mr., 46, 104.

Carter, John, 101.

Catechism, 5, 6, 10, 15.

Catechism of New England, 7.

Cautionary Stories in Verse, 175.

Century Magazine, 208.

Chandler, Samuel, 163.

Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, 54.

Chapone, Hester, 113, 114, 159.

Chapters of Accidents, 174.

Charles, Mary, 170.

Charles, William, 170, 171, 176, 183.

Cheap Repository, 152.

Cherry Orchard, The, 156, 177.

Child, Lydia Maria, 193, 201.

Child and his Book, 11, 45.

Children in the Wood, 8.

Children’s Books and Reading, 132.

Children’s Friend, 135, 161.

Children’s Magazine, The, 101.

Children’s Miscellany, 129, 131.

Child’s Garden of Verses, Stevenson’s, 182.

Child’s Gem, 221.

Child’s Guide to Spelling and Reading, 165.

Child’s Instructor, 122, 123.

Child’s New Play-thing, 41, 43-45.

Choice Spirits, 90.

Christmas Box, 64, 106.

Cinderella, 62, 171.

Clarissa Harlowe, 50, 79-85, 109.

Clarke, Edward, 41.

Cock Robin, 166.

Collection of Pretty Poems, 67.

Collins, Benjamin, 47.

Complete Letter-Writer, 90.

Congress, The, 98.

Conrad and Parsons, 206, 207.

Contes de ma Mère l’Oye, 219.

Cooper, James Fenimore, 148, 191, 203, 211.

Cooper, Rev. Mr., 134.

Copley, John Stuart, 217.

Cotton, John, 6, 9, 30.

Cottons and Barnard, 206.

Country Rhimes for Children, 11, 13.

Coverly, Nathaniel, 166.

Cowper, William, 153, 175.

Cox and Berry, 80.

Cries of London, 80, 180.

Cries of New York, 180-182.

Cries of Philadelphia, 180.

Cross, Wilbur L., 80.

Crouch, Nathaniel, 36.

Cruel Giant Barbarico, 74.

Crukshank, Joseph, 100, 101, 165.

Custis, John Parke, 73.

Custis, Martha Parke, 73.

Cuz’s Chorus, 111.

Daisy, The, 176.

Darton, William, 124, 174, 182, 213.

Darton and Harvey, 222.

Day, Mahlon, 169, 206, 207.

Day, Thomas, 129-132, 142, 145, 154, 179, 188.

Daye, John, 7.

Dearborn, Nathaniel, 169, 221.

Death and Burial of Cock Robin, 124.

Death of Abel, 90.

Defoe, Daniel, 129.

Delight in the Lord Jesus, 39.

Description of Various Objects, A, 173.

Development of the English novel, 80.

Dennie, Joseph, 192.

Dilworth, Thomas, 38, 41, 121, 136.

Divine emblems, 13.

Divine Songs, 38.

Doane, Bishop G. W., 196.

Doddridge, Philip, 152, 184.

Dodsley, Robert, 95.

Don Quixote, 161.

Donaldson, Arthur, 192.

Donnel Dhu, 220.

Doolittle, Amos, 169.

Dove, The, 134.

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 148.

Draper, Samuel, 69.

Draper and Edwards, 44.

Drinker, Eliza, 91, 126.

Dryden’s Poems, 163.

Dunlap, John, 100.

Dunton, John, 8, 36.

Durell, publisher, 166, 167.

Duyckinck, Evert, 217.

Early Lessons, 155.

Earnest Exhortation, 22.

Easy Introduction into the knowledge of Nature, 128.

Easy Lessons for Children, 127, 128, 132, 155.

Economy of Human Life, 152.

Edgeworth, Maria, 128, 140, 150, 153-159, 164, 171, 175-177, 187, 188, 207, 212, 213, 226.

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 154-156, 220.

Edwards, Joseph, 43.

Elegant Extracts, 162.

Embury, Emma C., 200, 201.

Emulation, 187.

English Empire in America, 36.

Entertaining Fables, 109.

Errand Boy, 187.

Evenings at Home, 128, 139, 163, 164.

Everett, Alexander H., 196.

Everett, Edward, 196.

Fables in verse, 53, 220.

Fabulous Histories, 128, 141.

Fair Rosamond, 24.

Fairchild Family, The, 152, 186, 212.

Fairy Book, 216.

Familiar Description of Beasts and Birds, 174.

Farrar, Eliza Ware, 213.

Father’s Gift, The, 111.

Female Orators, 82.

Fenelon’s Reflections, 184.

Field, E. M., 11, 45.

Field, Walter T., 218.

Fielding, Henry, 51, 78, 80, 81, 137.

Fields, James T., 196.

First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 76.

Fleet, Thomas, 19, 20, 24, 38.

Fleming, John, 74.

Flora’s Gala, 175.

Follen, Eliza L., 213.

Food for the Mind, 67, 68, 107.

Fool of Quality, 130.

Ford, Paul Leicester, 14.

Fowle, Zechariah, 20, 40, 69, 103.

Fowle and Draper, 72.

Fox and Geese, 209.

Foxe, John, 10.

Franconia, 215.

Frank, 155.

Franklin, Benjamin, 21-24, 26, 36, 38, 59-62, 103, 105, 123, 179, 193, 216.

Franklin, Sally, 62, 63.

Franklin and Hall, 59.

French Convert, 90.

Friendly Instruction, 184.

Gaffer Two Shoes, 82.

Gaine, Hugh, 64, 65, 67, 68, 89, 167, 217.

Gallaudet, Elisha, 196.

Garden Amusements, 175.

Generous Inconstant, The, 82.

Genlis, Madame Stéphanie-Félicité de, 132, 134.

Geographical, Statistical and Political Amusement, 178.

George’s Junior Republic, 139.

Gilbert, C., 169.

Giles Gingerbread, 74, 110, 140, 159.

Gilman, Caroline, 194, 195.

Going to Jerusalem, 209.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 51, 52, 80, 82, 95, 108, 159, 219, 220.

Good Lessons for Children, 18, 127, 227.

Good Natur’d Man, 219.

Goodrich, Samuel G., 129, 194-196, 198, 199, 201, 208, 213-215, 218, 222-225.

Goody Two-Shoes, 52, 53, 55, 89, 101, 110, 116-118, 123, 140-142, 159.

Greeley, Horace, 196.

Green, Samuel, 10, 13, 14.

Green, Timothy, 17.

Gulliver’s Adventures, 125.

Guy of Warwick, 8.

Hail Columbia, 148, 211.

Hale, Richard W., 208.

Hale, Sarah J., 193, 208, 209.

Hall, Anna Maria, 197, 199.

Hall, David, 59, 62, 100.

Hall, Samuel, 124, 125.

Hall, William, 100.

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 148.

Hannah Swanton, the Casco Captive, 206.

Happy Child, 40.

Harper and Brothers, 206, 216.

Harris, Benjamin, 14.

Harris, John, 182, 183.

Harry and Lucy, 155, 156, 164, 220.

Harvey, John, 182.

Hawkins, Laetitia Matilda, 219.

Hawthorne, Julian, 78, 129, 130.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 149, 196, 227.

Hebrides, 153.

Henrietta Harrison, 211.

Hildeburn, Charles R., 65, 93.

Hill, George Birbeck, 141.

Hill, Hannah, 21, 186.

Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passé, 219.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 69.

History of a Doll, 136.

History of printing in America, 18, 19.

History of the American Revolution, 123.

History of the Holy Jesus, 39, 40, 103.

History of the Institution of Cyrus, 130.

History of the Robins, 129.

Hive, The, 195.

Hobby Horse, The, 42, 80.

Hofland, Barbara, 197, 198.

Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, 162-164, 184, 196, 201.

Holy Bible in Verse, 15.

Home, 226.

Home of Washington, 28.

Hopkinson, Joseph, 148.

Hot Buttered Beans, 209.

House that Jack Built, 19.

Howard, Mr., 29.

Hudibras, 161.

Hunt the Thimble, 209.

Hymns for Infant Minds, 184.

Hymns in Prose and Verse, 128.

“Ianthe.” See Embury.

Illman, Thomas, 196.

Infidel Class, 206.

Irving, Washington, 148, 191.

Jack and Jill, 219.

Jack the Giant Killer, 8, 141.

Jacky Dandy’s Delight, 107, 108.

James, William, 175, 176.

Jane Grey, 24.

Janeway, James, 17, 186.

Jenny Twitchell’s Jests, 90.

Joe Miller’s Jests, 90.

Johnson, Benjamin, 164, 178, 183, 192.

Johnson, Jacob, 152, 155, 156, 159, 164, 173, 178, 183.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 36, 50-52, 129, 140, 141, 153, 219.

Johnson and Warner, 164, 178, 183.

Johnsonian Miscellany, 141.

Jones, Giles, 52, 53.

Joseph Andrews, 78, 81, 90.

Josephus, 167.

Julianna Oakley, 206.

Juvenile Biographers, 115, 116.

Juvenile Magazine, 179, 192.

Juvenile Miscellany, 193-195, 208, 212.

Juvenile Olio, 192.

Juvenile Piety, 206.

Juvenile Portfolio, 192.

Juvenile Rambler, 195.

Juvenile Trials for Robbing Orchards, etc., 139, 140.

Keeper’s Travels in Search of his Master, 172.

Kellogg, Joseph G., 196.

Kendall, Dr., 172.

Key, Francis Scott, 148.

Kilner, Dorothy, 109.

King Pippin, 55, 110, 159, 163.

Kleine Erzählungen über ein Buch mit Kupfern, 178.

Knox, Thomas W., 132.

Lady Queen Anne, 209.

Lamb, Charles, 141, 142, 217.

Lansing, G., 169.

Lark, The, 90.

Launch of the Frigate, 210.

Lee, Richard Henry, 28, 29.

Legacy to Children, 126.

Lenox Collection, 180.

Leo, the Great Giant, 74.

Leslie, Eliza, 193, 196, 201, 208-211, 225, 226.

Letters from the Dead to the Living, 162.

Letters to Little Children, 206.

Liddon, Mr., 100.

Life of David, 163.

Lilly, Wait and Company, 194, 206.

Lincoln and Edmunds, 184, 206.

Linnet, The, 90.

Linton, William James, 166, 168, 169.

Literary Magazine, 52.

Literature of the American Revolution, 98.

Little Book for Children, 17.

Little Boy found under a Haycock, 123.

Little Deceiver Reclaimed, 206.

Little Dog Trusty, 156.

Little Fanny, 176.

Little Helen, 212.

Little Henry, 170.

Little Henry and his Bearer, 184, 185.

Little Jack, 131.

Little Lottery Book, 106.

Little Lucy, 212.

Little Millenium Boy, 186.

Little Nancy, 171, 176-178.

Little Pretty Pocket-Book, A, 47-50, 67.

Little Readers’ Assistant, 121, 122.

Little Robin Red Breast, 114.

Little Scholar’s Pretty Pocket Companion, 122.

Little Sophie, 176.

Little Truths, 124, 125, 182.

Little William, 171.

Live and Let Live, 226.

Lives of Highwaymen, 90.

Lives of Pirates, 90.

Locke, John, 41-43, 46, 51, 66, 99.

London Chronicle, 53.

Longfellow, Henry W., 196.

Longworth, David, 165, 168.

Looking-glass, A, 22.

Looking Glass for the Mind, 134, 135, 159, 162, 166.

Lossing, Benson J., 28, 29, 167.

Loudon, Samuel, 217.

Love Token for Children, 212.

Macaulay, T. B., 153.

Magnalia, 162.

Mary had a Little Lamb, 208, 209, 227.

Mason, A. J., 169.

Massachusetts Sunday School Union, 194.

Master Jacky and Miss Harriot, 135.

Mather, Cotton, 6, 7, 9, 16-18, 21, 22, 56, 127, 185, 186, 227.

Mather, Elizabeth, 16.

Mather, Increase, 16-18.

Mather, Samuel, 16.

Mein, John, 73-75, 77, 89.

Metamorphosis, A, 169.

Milk for Babes, 6, 7, 30.

Milton, John, 159, 175.

Mr. Telltruth’s Natural History of Birds, 107.

Mitford, Mary Russell, 197.

Moejen’s Recueil, 218.

Moll Flanders, 90.

Moore, Clement Clarke, 147-149, 227.

Moral Tale, 187.

Moral Tales, 159.

More, Hannah, 134, 150-153, 159, 188, 212-214.

Morgan, engraver, 169.

Morgan and Sons, 170, 207.

Morgan and Yeager, 170.

Morton, Eliza, 95.

Moses, Montrose J., 132.

Mother Goose Melodies, 19, 20, 53, 114, 218-220.

Mother’s Gift, 82, 111, 113, 118.

Mother’s Remarks over a Set of Cuts, A, 178.

Munroe and Francis, 20, 168, 206, 220.

Murray, James, 91.

Museum, The, 60, 61.

My Father, 176.

My Governess, 176, 182.

My Mother, 176.

My Pony, 176.

My Sister, 182.

Natural History of Four Footed Beasts, 107.

Neagle, John, 169.

New England Courant, 21, 22.

New England Primer, 6, 7, 13-15, 28, 33, 93, 121.

New French Primer, 60.

New Gift for Children with Cuts, 40, 69-72, 103.

New Guide to the English Tongue, 38.

New Picture of the City, 100.

New Year’s Gift, 64.

New York Mercury, 67.

New York Weekly, 207.

Newbery, Carnan, 54.

Newbery, Edward, 54.

Newbery, Francis, 46, 51, 54, 82.

Newbery, John, 28, 37, 40, 46-56, 60-62, 64, 67, 70, 74, 77, 82, 89, 90, 97, 101, 104, 108, 118, 123, 124, 141, 142, 154, 159, 182, 187, 198, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222.

Newbery, Ralph, 46.

Nichols, Dr. Charles L., 102, 103.

Night before Christmas, The, 147, 148, 227.

Noel, Garrat, 68, 148.

North American Review, 212.

Nutter, Valentine, 89.

Old Mother Hubbard, 166.

Olive Buds, 213.

Orangeman, The, 156.

Original Poems, 182.

Osgood, Frances S., 213.

Oswald, Ebenezer, 100.

Pamela, 50, 78, 80, 81, 109.

Parable against Persecution, 123.

Paradise Lost, 153.

Parent’s Assistant, 155.

Parents’ Gift, 38.

Parker, James, 62.

Parley, Peter. See Goodrich, S. G.

Pastoral Hymn, 74.

Patriotic and Amatory Songster, 180.

Peacock at Home, 171.

Pearl, The, 209.

Pearson, Edwin, 53, 117.

Pease, Joseph I., 196.

Pedigree and Rise of the Pretty Doll, 136-139.

Pelton, Oliver, 196.

Pennsylvania Evening Post, 93.

Pennsylvania Gazette, 59, 62.

Pennsylvania Journal, 59.

People of all Nations, 173, 174.

Peregrine Pickle, 51, 109.

Perrault, Charles, 62, 218.

Perry, Michael, 26.

Philadelphiad, The, 100.

Picture Exhibition, The, 106, 109.

Pilgrim’s Progress, 10, 36, 95, 126, 163, 167.

Pilkington, Mary, 114.

Pinckney, Eliza, 91.

Play-thing, The, 61.

Pleasures of Piety in Youth, 184.

Plutarch’s Lives, 130.

Poems for Children, 208.

Poems for Children Three Feet High, 64.

Poesie out of Mr. Dod’s Garden, 38.

Poetical Description of Song Birds, 114.

Poetry for Children, 213, 221.

Popular Tales, 155.

Poupard, James, 169.

Power of Religion, 152.

Practical Education, 128.

Practical Piety, 184.

Present for a Little Girl, 169.

Preservative from the Sins and Follies of Childhood, 40.

Pretty Book for Children, 60, 61, 67.

Principles of the Christian Religion, 184.

Pritchard, Mr., 100.

Private Tutor for little Masters and Misses, 67.

Prize for Youthful Obedience, 172, 173.

Prodigal Daughter, The, 24-26, 40, 188.

Protestant Tutor for Children, 13, 14.

Puritan Primer, 13.

Puzzling Cap, 80, 82.

Quarterly Review, 222.

Quincy, Mrs. Josiah, 158, 159.

Raikes, Robert, 151.

Ralph, W., 169.

Rand, Rev. Asa, 194.

Rebels, The, 98.

Recollections of a New England Housekeeper, 195.

Redwood, 211.

Rees’s Encyclopedia, 163.

Reformed Family, 206.

Remembrance of Youth is a Sigh, 200.

Rhymes for the Nursery, 20, 182.

Rice, Mr., 100.

Richardson, Samuel, 50, 78-81, 137.

Rivington, James, 65, 67, 68.

Roberts, Jean, 197.

Robin Red Breast, 90.

Robin’s Alive, 209.

Robinson Crusoe, 79, 90, 118, 129, 130, 159.

Roderick Random, 51, 109.

Roger and Berry, 89.

Rollin’s Ancient History, 161.

Rollinson, William, 169.

Rollo Books, 213, 215, 223.

Rose, The, 187.

Rose Bud, 195.

Rose’s Breakfast, The, 175.

Rowe, Elizabeth, 162.

Royal Battledore, 60, 61.

Royal Primer, 61.

Russell’s Seven Sermons, 90.

Sabbath School Times, 194.

Sanford and Merton, 129, 154.

Scotch Rogue, 90.

Scott, Sir Walter, 158, 220.

Scott’s (Rev. Thomas) Family Bible, 163.

Search after Happiness, 134, 152.

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 152, 160, 161, 193, 196, 208, 211, 212, 224, 226.

Seven Wise Masters, 90.

Seven Wise Mistresses, 90.

Sewall, Henry, 9.

Sewall, Samuel, 9, 10.

Shakespeare, William, 159, 161.

Sharps, William, 29.

Sheldon, Lucy, 82.

Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, 152, 214.

Sherwood, Mary Martha, 152, 184, 186, 187, 212, 221.

Sigourney, Lydia H., 193, 208, 213, 224.

Simple Susan, 158.

Sims, Joseph, 27.

Sir Charles Grandison, 79-82.

Sister’s Gift, 80, 111-113.

Skyrin, Nancy, 126, 127.

Smart, Christopher, 54.

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, 213, 224.

Smollett, Tobias, 51, 52, 78, 79.

Song for the Red Coats, 97.

Songs for the Nursery, 19, 20.

Southern Rose, 195.

Souvenir, 210.

Sparrow, The, 172.

Star Spangled Banner, 148.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 182.

Stir the Mush, 209.

Stone, William L., 200.

Stories and Tales, 90.

Stories for Children, 212.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 162.

Strahan, William, 61-63.

Tale, A: The Political Balance, 123.

Tales and Essays, 213.

Taylor, Ann, 176, 182.

Taylor, Jane, 182, 184.

Tell Tale, 225.

Thackerary, W. M., 34.

Thomas, Isaiah, 18-20, 40, 69, 74, 102-104, 106, 109, 116-118, 129, 168, 198, 222.

Thompson, John, 168.

Thoughts on Education, 41, 66, 99.

Three Stories for Children, 156.

Todd, John, D. D., 222.

Token, The, 196, 197, 212, 214.

Token for Children, 17, 186.

Token for the Children of New England, 17, 21, 186.

Token for Youth, 40.

Tom Hick-a-Thrift, 24.

Tom Jones, 51, 78, 80, 109, 110.

Tom the Piper’s Son, 170.

Tom Thumb, 8, 19, 24, 62, 74, 77, 102, 106, 114, 166, 167.

Tommy Trapwit, 64.

Tommy Trip, 52, 74, 107, 108.

Track the Rabbit, 209.

Trimmer, Sarah, 128, 129, 141, 142, 159.

Trip’s Book of Pictures, 64.

Triumphs of Love, 90.

Troy (N. Y.) Sentinel, 147.

Twelve Caesars, 90.

Twice Told Tales, 196.

Two Lambs, 152.

Two Shoemakers, 152.

Tyler, Moses Coit, 98.

Unterhaltungen für Deutsche Kinder, 178.

Urax, or the Fair Wanderer, 74.

Valentine and Orson, 90.

Verplanck, Gulian C., 196, 216.

Vicar of Wakefield, 52, 219.

Violet, The, 209.

Waddell, J., 62.

Walks of Usefulness, 184.

Walters and Norman, 93.

Walton’s Lives, 153.

Warner and Hanna, 169.

Washington, George, 28, 29, 72, 73, 93, 122, 123, 170, 179.

Waste Not, Want Not, 156-158.

Watts, Isaac, 38, 45, 46.

Way to Wealth, 179.

Webster, Noah, 121, 122, 136.

Weekly Mercury, 23, 26, 27, 64, 65, 68.

Weekly Post-Boy, 62.

Weems’s Life of George Washington, 179, 180.

Well Spent Hour, 212.

Wells, Anna M., 193, 213.

Wells, Robert, 102.

Welsh, Charles, 46, 49, 51, 54, 61, 70, 124, 142.

West, Benjamin, 216.

Westminster Review, 224.

Westminster Shorter Catechism, 7.

White, William, D. D., 151.

Whitefield, George, 151.

Widdows, P., 126.

Wilder, Mary, 113.

Willis, Nathaniel P., 194.

Winslow, Anna Green, 81-83, 85.

Winter Evenings’ Entertainment, 37, 90.

Wonder Book, 149, 227.

Wonderful Traveller, 209.

Wonders of Nature and Art, 53.

Wood, Samuel, 165, 166, 169, 175.

Wood, Samuel, and Sons, 167, 206.

Wood-engraving in America, 166-169.

Woodhouse, William, 100.

Worcester Magazine, 104.

Xenophon, 130.

Young, William, 129.

Young Child’s A B C, 166.

Young Christian Series, 215.

Young Gentlemen and Ladies’ Magazine, 183.

Youth’s Companion, 194.

Youth’s Divine Pastime, 37.

Youth’s Keepsake, 212.

Zentler, publisher, 178.

Transcriber’s Note

The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

Misspelled words and typographical errors:

Page Error

ix Edmands for Edmunds

46 Newbury for Newbery

102 Missing period: “to a boy But”

158 Paragraph ends with , “her own generation,”

208 Sentence ends with a comma: “the originator of these verses,”

243 Thackerary for Thackeray

Inconsistent hyphenation:

folk-lore / folklore school-fellows / schoolfellows school-masters / schoolmasters small-pox / smallpox wood-cut / woodcut