Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions Part 13

However wisely said, when first said, it is not wise to "look to the government for too much;" and there can be no reasonable doubt of the ability of the farmers to inst.i.tute and perfect such measures of self-education as are at present needed. But the spirit in which they enter upon this work must be broad, comprehensive, catholic. They will find something, I hope, of example, something of motive, something of power, in their experience as friends and supporters of our system of common school education; and something of all these, I trust, in the facts that this system is kept in motion by the self-imposed taxation of the whole people; that all individuals and cla.s.ses of men, forgetting their differences of opinion in politics and religion, rally to its support, as being in itself a safe basis on which may be built whatever structures men of wisdom and virtue and piety may desire to erect, whether they labor first and chiefly for the world that is, or for that which is to come.

FOOTNOTE:

[10] Hon. George S. Hillard.

JUVENILE BOOKS.

THE ROLLO BOOKS. By REV. JACOB ABBOTT.

Rollo Learning to Talk.

Rollo Learning to Read.

Rollo at Work.

Rollo at Play.

Rollo at School.

Rollo's Vacation.

Rollo's Experiments.

Rollo's Museum.

Rollo's Travels.

Rollo's Correspondence.

Rollo's Philosophy--Water.

Rollo's Philosophy--Fire.

Rollo's Philosophy--Air.

Rollo's Philosophy--Sky.

This is undoubtedly the most popular series of juvenile books ever published in America. This edition is far more attractive externally than the one by which the author first became known. Nearly one hundred new engravings, clear and fine paper, a new and beautiful cover, with a neat box to contain the whole, will give to this series, if possible, a still wider and more enduring reputation.

EXCELSIOR GIFT BOOKS.

Christmas Roses.

Favorite Story Book.

Little Messenger Birds.

The Ice King.

Youth's Diadem.

Juvenile Keepsake.

A beautiful series of books, and universally popular.

VACATION STORY BOOKS.

Estelle's Stories about Dogs.

The Cheerful Heart.

Little Blossom's Reward.

Holidays at Chestnut Hill.

Country Life.

The Angel Children.