Child Life in Colonial Days

								



Elizabeth Storer, Twelve Years Old, 1738. Painted by

      Smibert. Owned by Dr. Townsend, Boston, Mass.   facing 98


Carved Busks. Owned by Essex Institute                      106


"Dorothy Q." "Thirteen Summers," 1720 circa. Owned by

      Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.     facing 108


Elizabeth Quincy Wendell, 1720 circa. Owned by Dr.

      Josiah L. Hale, Brookline, Mass.               facing 112


Hornbook. Owned by Mrs. Anne Robinson Minturn,

      Shoreham, Vt.                                  facing 118


Hornbook. Owned by Miss Grace L. Gordon, Flushing,

      L.I.                                                    120


Back of Hornbook. Owned by Miss Grace L. Gordon             123


"The Royal Battledore"                             facing 124


"My New Battledore"                                facing 126


Reading-board, Erasmus Hall, Flatbush, L.I.                 127


Page of New England Primer                                  130


"The Grammarian's Funeral"                         facing 134


"Readingmadeasy"                                   facing 136


Page from Abraham Lincoln's Sum Book               facing 138


Battledore, "Lessons in Numbers"                   facing 140


Title-page of "Cocker's Arithmetic"                         140


"American Selection," by Noah Webster, Jr.         facing 142


"The Little Reader's Assistant," by Noah Webster,

      Jr. facing                                            144


Exhibition "Piece" of Anne Reynolds                facing 152


Ornamental Letter                                           154


Writing of Abiah Holbrook                          facing 154


David Waite, Seven Years Old. Owned by Professor

      Langley, Washington, D.C.                      facing 158


Page of "White" Bible                              facing 162


Anna Green Winslow. Owned by Miss Elizabeth Trott,

      Niagara Falls, N.Y.                            facing 164


Pages from Diary of Mary Osgood Sumner. Owned by

      Dr. P. H. Mell, Auburn, Ala.                   facing 166


Joshua Carter, Four Years Old. Painted by Charles Wilson

      Peale. Owned by Miss Anna Thaxter Reynolds, Boston,

      Mass.                                          facing 170


Page from Diary of Anna Green Winslow                       174


Samuel Torrey, Twelve Years Old, 1770. Owned by Miss

      Frances R. Morse, Boston, Mass.                facing 176


The Copley Family                                  facing 180


Facsimile from Sir Hugh Plat's "Jewel House of Art and

      Nature," 1653                                           183


Polly Flagg, One Year Old, 1751. Painted by Smibert.

      Owned by Mrs. Albert Thorndike, Boston, Mass.  facing 184


James Flagg, Five Years Old, 1744. Painted by Smibert.

      Owned by Mrs. Albert Thorndike, Boston, Mass.  facing 188