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!
V. THE LIBRARY AND THE BOOK
THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.