He is the author of several historical works: "Primer of Roman History," 1875; "The Age of Elizabeth," 1876; etc.

He had been poring over primers for three days, stuffing the most heterogeneous facts.

Much unintelligent reading in later life is due to the reading primer in which there was nothing to understand.

Primer by W. H. Elson and Lura E. Runkel.

'Men ought always to give way to women, I've heard mother say; but I couldn't turn back, you seeit would have disgraced my button.' 'Tell you what,' cried Harry Brown, commonly known as 'Carrots' from his fiery hair, 'you could 'a done what the goats did in the primer at schoolyou ought ter have laid flat down and let her walk across you.'

I remember of a summer's afternoon seeing a young married woman, perhaps twenty-five years old, seated on a door-step with her primer before her, trying to make progress.

But just the primer to a life Unopened, rare, upon the shelf, Clasped yet to him and me.