Rural Hours - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... its obligations, they will be far better qualified for the same situation twenty years hence, than they are to-day. The metamorphosis of "books of stature small, Which, with pellucid horn secured, are 11 into Dictionaries, and volumes on Science, is quite as striking as the change from old to young, in the instructors. The very rume of a horn-book is never heard to-day, and perhaps there are not half v a dozen persons in an American country school district who know its meaning. In this respect, our children of the present day have greatly the advantage over their predecessors; few things are cheaper and more common now than books. Possibly fingers are also more clean, and do not need the sheath of horn to protect the paper; though, upon consideration, it seems by no means certain that the hands of modern little folk are so much better washed than those of their grand-parents, since it will be remembered that the dame's little troop for "unkempt hair," were "sorely shent," and where the hair was required to be nicely combed, it is but natural to suppose that faces and hands were well washed. The flock that came tripping out of the Red Brook school-house this afternoon was composed of boys and girls, varying in ages and sizes from the little chubby thing, half boy, half baby, to the elder sister, just beginning to put on the first airs of womanhood. Different codes of manners are found to prevail in different schoolhouses about the country: sometimes, when the children are at play before the door, or trudging on their way to or from home, the little girls will curtsey, and the boys bow to the passing stranger, showing that they have been taught to make their manners; but--alas, that it should be so--there are other unruly flocks where the...
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Review:
In Rural Hours, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), daughter of the famed novelist James Fenimore Cooper, records a year in the life of the fields and woods surrounding her home in Cooperstown, New York. She writes with a keen eye for detail, noting, for example, the disappearance of local species as their habitat is given over to farmland ("all kinds of black-birds are rare here; they are said to have been very numerous indeed at the settlement of the country, but have very much diminished in numbers of late years"), and keeping track of changes in the weather, fluctuations in animal populations, and like matters. Rural Hours is considered to be the first extended piece of nature writing by an American woman, and as such it should be of interest to a wide range of readers, from naturalists to students of regional literature and women's history. --Gregory McNamee
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Cooper is the daughter of novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230208194
- ISBN 13 9781230208190
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages148
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