FOOTNOTES
[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!