Character: A Moral Text-Book
"Character: A Moral Text-Book for the Use of Parents and Teachers in Training Youth in the Principles of Conduct and an Aid to Self-Culture." Henry Varnum, author and publisher, Jacksonville, Florida. The object of the book is stated in its title. Its aim is a moral text-book for younger scholars as well as older. The author makes God, love to Him and His service, the basis of character, and then proceeds to child and parent. The volume is divided into eighteen books, and each book into subdivisions called parts. Each part is further subdivided into numbered paragraphs of definitions, admonitions, statement of duty or conduct, etc. Apart from its false theology of spirit life which has crept in, the book is helpfully suggestive. Not only the teacher may find it thus, but the individual may study it with profit.