Sargent, Epes, Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Joshua G.
McKim Text encoded by Joshua G. McKim and Natalia Smith First edition, ca. Epes Sargent p. Macon, Ga. OCR-ed text has been compared against the original document and corrected. Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. Encountered typographical errors have been preserved, and appear in red type.
All footnotes are inserted at the point of reference within paragraphs. Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references. All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " respectively.
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively. All em dashes are encoded as -- Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Running titles have not been preserved. Education -- Confederate States of America. English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Southern States -- Juvenile literature. Textbooks -- Confederate States of America. McKim finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. SINCE we learn the orthography of words mainly in order to be able to write them correctly, it is matter for surprise that the practice of silent spelling by writing words from dictation is not resorted to more generally in instruction.
