Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear / Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks

by B. J. Griswold

We commend the book with all earnestness, to these various classes of people, and will insist that no father or mother will ever be the poorer, but the richer, who will part with the price and get in exchange for it a copy of this book, as a birthday or Christmas gift to a son or daughter between ten and twenty years of age. It will help parents in the uncertain and difficult problem of rearing their children in a way that will make them and keep them a joy in the home, rather than a heartache, a heart break, and the saddest kind of a bereavement, which is too often the case. Surely a dollar spent which may help avert this, is worth far more than a hundred cents lying unused in a bank.

There are sixty-two picture outlines in the book, and with every picture a ten-minute talk, with chalk illustration, which recites and impresses, now, a great and noble deed of a truly noble man; now a kindly act with a double blessing in it; again, a warning to those who unknowingly set foot upon the devil's ground and find it a miry or slimy pit; or, it may be a lesson from one of the world's great poets or historians, for the author has evidently been a reader of great books with a mind to recall many lessons learned therefrom.

THE PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS.

• Page.
• INTRODUCTION:
  • The plan of the Book. [7]
  • The Value of Chalk Talks. [7]
  • The Two-Scene Method. [8]
  • Chalk Work on Paper. [8]
  • Materials Are Cheap. [8]
  • Important to Beginners. [8]
• EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS:
  • The Drawing Board. [10]
  • The Drawing Paper. [10]
  • The Chalk. [12]
• PREPARING TO GIVE THE CHALK TALK:
  • The Method Explained. [12]
  • Outlining the Right Picture. [13]
  • Not an Artist, But a Teacher. [14]
  • Finishing Part of the Drawing in Advance. [14]
  • The Value of Individuality. [14]
  • International or Graded Lessons. [14]
  • Talks for Special Days. [14]
  • Talk vs. Chalk. [16]
  • Strive Only for Good. [16]
  • Recording Your Talks. [16]
  • A Word to Parents. [16]
  • A Final Word to Pastors. [18]
• INDEX:
  • Talks for Special Days. [205]
  • Subject Index. [207]

His pictured morals mend the mind
And through the eye correct the heart.

—GARRICK, on Hogarth.

INTRODUCTION.

The Plan of the Book.

In the preparation of this book the author has had two great plans in mind:

To prepare a work which will enable any person, who can speak to a class or an audience, to give a helpful, inspiring illustrated talk; to place in the hands of parents everywhere a book to enable them to teach the children a simple, fascinating method of drawing and, at the same time make the great truths of life a part of their every-day learning.