Authors: Carolyn M. Robbins (Training Teacher, State Normal School, Mankato, Minnesota) and Robert Keable Row (Fellow in Education, University of Chicago)
Publisher: Row, Peterson & Co., Chicago
Representative sentences:
In an imperative sentence the subject is always thou, ye or you, and generally is not expressed.
What was Epimetheus doing all this time? This was the first time, since his little palymate had come to dwell with him, that he had attempted to enjoy any pleasure without her.
What is an appositive? What is the case of a noun in apposition with one in the nominative case? With one in the possessive case? Then, what should you infer to be the case of a noun in apposition with one in the objective case?
Book condition: Fair. There's staining on the cover, but the binding is still strong with no missing pages.
The thing about old English textbooks is they don't fuck around; the sample sentence regarding appositives shows up in study 59, which is only page 49 of this 341 page special. There's a strong connection made to literature, with ample quotes from folks like Hawthorne and Mary Mapes Dodge. There's a strong focus on memorization, including poems from Tennyson and the Gettysburg Address, which is something I've always been fascinated with.
The publisher, Row, Peterson, and Company, was bought out by Harper Brothers in 1962, which itself was eaten up by NewsCorp in 1987 and combined with another publishing house to become the HarperCollins that we all know today.
Regarding the authors, the State Normal School that Ms. Carolyn M. Robbins was affiliated with is now Minnesota State University-Mankato. Much like my beloved Eastern Washington University their ed roots run deep; for 36 years their name was Mankato State Teachers College. Row's experience at the University of Chicago would either make him a contemporary of, or someone there immediately after, John Dewey.
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