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World Library Foundation Newsletter: August 2019, Volume 3, Issue 8

Back to School: The Books That Taught America to Read

World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.

2019

Abstract

The World Library Foundation's newsletter for August 2019 (Volume 3, Issue 8). Back to School: the books that taught America to read - the New England Primer, Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller, the McGuffey Readers, Ray's arithmetics, Byrne's Euclid in color, and two school stories. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "Summer's End, and a Writer at Two Hundred"; Melville at 200, from the South Seas to the customs house; and from the Library Exhibits, the 1918 influenza pandemic.

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