Used, Good condition; NO DUST JACKET; spine and cover edges scuffed; several page edges rough cut; inscription on endpaper dated 1893; pencil notes on several pages; 5.75 x 8.25; 608 pages;

(FROM INTRODUCTION) It is my office only to stand in the portico and open the door of the present edifice, which has been builded right skillfully by another. If the delight of the intelligent reader were the only purpose in view, hardly anything could be better than such a compilation as the present one, showing the part played by the schoolmaster in the literature of diverse ages and of different nations. It is quite worth while, for example, to take the ideal of a good schoolmaster constructed by quaint old Thomas Fuller and put it alongside the Blimbers, and to place Shenstone's village school, ‘where it sits the dame disguised in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around,' in juxtaposition with the immaculate Miss Pinkerton's most respectable seat of learning on Chiswick Mall, or with quaint old Bartle Massey's night school for full-grown men. Here we have the schoolmaster under many lights, and literature in widely varying moods. As a means of cultivating a taste for literature and a discriminating taste in literature, I know of no better collection than this, particularly for the use of teachers, whose relish is certain to be quickened by professional interest in the subject.