Background
Lyman Cobb, the son of Elijah William and Sally (Whitney) Cobb, was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States but lived chiefly in New York State.
(Excerpt from Cobb's New North American Reader, or Fifth R...)
Excerpt from Cobb's New North American Reader, or Fifth Reading Book: Containing a Great Variety of Interesting, Historical, Moral, and Instructive Reading Lessons in Prose and Poetry, From Highly Esteemed American and English Writers These Readers have met with such neral favor, and extensive patron age, that the huthor,' hoping to make t em still more acceptable, has add cd several pages of new Lessons to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Readers, which, it is believed, will make these books more valuable. These three books, however. Can be used in the same classes with the books of former editions, the pages and Lessons being the same as ihr as they extend. As the words in the former Spelling Lessons have not been te-stereotyped, a few repetitions will now be found in the three Readers, 3, 4, and 5. He has likewise compiled a Speaker, or Sixth Reader, soon to be published, which contains a large number of pieces for declamation, and a selection of dia lognes for school exercises in reading and speaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Cobb's Spelling Book: Being a Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language; Containing the Rudiments of the English Language, Arranged in Catechetical Order; An Organization of the Alphabet; An Easy Scheme of Spelling and Pronunciation A. It is a letter which cannot be fully sounded without the help of a vowel; as b, c, d, which are expressed be, cc, de. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Cobb's Juvenile Reader No. 3: Containing Interesting, Historical, Moral, and Instructive Reading Lessons, Composed of Words of a Greater Number of Syllables Than the Lessons in Nos. I, and II Had the art of writing a sufficient number of marks and s' s,' to point out the variety of tones and cadences, the art of res ing with propriety at sight, might be rendered as easy and as certain, as singing at s' ht. But as the art of writing will probably never admit suc a change, it is essential to point out how the art of reading may be improved, while that of writing continues in its present state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Lyman Cobb, the son of Elijah William and Sally (Whitney) Cobb, was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States but lived chiefly in New York State.
Cobbs obtained an education in the local schools. In some of his publications he mentioned himself as “Master of Arts. ”
The first of Cobb's spelling-books appeared about 1821, and was followed at intervals by revisions, introductions, and sequels. He published a Critical Review of Noah Webster’s Spelling Book, which many held was inspired by malice and a desire to increase his own sales. This he stoutly denied. The Critical Review was answered by Webster in an eight-page pamphlet, To the Friends of American Literature. Each side was able to point out numerous errors in the other, though Cobb’s agents defied “anyone to show a variation from the true dictionary of Walker, ” an abridgment of which, by Cobb, was published at Ithaca in 1829.
In the early forties Cobb had another controversy over spelling-books, this time with Charles W. Sanders. Among his most significant books was The Evil Tendencies of Corporal Punishment (1847), wherein he discussed thirty “objections” to, and offered forty “substitutes for and preventives of, the use of the rod. ” This work was warmly commended by Gallaudet, Mann, Russell, and Griscom; and Cobb’s views were reechoed in hundreds of articles opposing the old practise.
His Pestalozzian bias is also seen in a statement that he did not want pupils to “become disgusted or fatigued” with monotonous reading. The Juvenile Reader No. 1 (1830) was recommended as “interesting, moral and instructive”; illustrations were used in some of his books; but it must be admitted that by the time the New Sequel or Fourth Reading Book (1843) was reached, an excessive aridity and formality had crept in, despite the author’s ambitious efforts.
In the North American Reader (1835) he made a patriotic appeal, the “pieces” being “chiefly American. ” Most readers, he said, do not include “a single piece or paragraph written by an American citizen. Is this good policy? Is it patriotism?” Though his books were widely used and received favorable comment, as in the American Journal of Education, their merits were perhaps exaggerated and excessively advertised.
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Cobb married Harriet Chambers of Caroline, Tompkins County, New York, in 1822.