The Up-To-Date Primer:
A First Book of Lessons for Little Political Economists
In Words of One Syllable,
With Pictures

By J. W. Bengough
(Reproduced from the Original)
25c

("Bengough's Primer")

The Alphabet and Prefatory Remarks

Lessons 1-12 | Lessons 13-24 | Lessons 25-36 | Lessons 37-48 | Lessons 49-60 | Lessons 61-70

The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation reprinted this in 1936. You might find the material inside the covers of interest ...

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Causes of Business Depressions, by Henry George
The Causes of unemployment and depression analyzed .... 12 pages
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The Single Tax: What It Is and Why We Urge It. by Henry George. 16 pages
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Moses -- by Henry George . An eloquent lecture emphasizing the democracy of the Mosaic code. 32 pages.
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Steps to Economic Recovery. A radio address by Dr. John Dewey of Columbia University. Also contains "What Prominent Men and Women Have Said of Henry George."
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Hat Trees of Ireland. A Satire on Protectionism
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One Hundred Years of Land Gambling. A review of Homer Hoyt's impressive study of Chicago land values, by Charles O'Connor Hennessey. 8 pages.
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The Great Land Racket -- An Essay by Paul Blanshard on "Gambling in Land Values in U.S.A."
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Addresses at the Funeral of Henry George
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The Story of My Dictatorship
A New State, based neither on Communism or Fascism. Attractive, red paper covers, imported.
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The New Political Economy by John B. Sharpe --
Short discussion of rent and the problems of labor.
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Smaller Profits, Reduced Salaries, Lower Wages -- by George L. Rusby.
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(A "Teachers Manual" -- $1.00 -- has been prepared by the Henry George School, 211 West 79th Street, New York, for use in leading a class through "Progress and Poverty." For information about the manual, address the School.)

Lessons 1-12 | Lessons 13-24 | Lessons 25-36 | Lessons 37-48 | Lessons 49-60 | Lessons 61-70

Another edition was published by The Joseph Fels Fund of America, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1913.

Also on the WealthandWant Website: Bengough's On True Political Economy: The Whole-Hog Book (1908) — also told in words of one syllable

About JW Bengough: [source: http://www.library.ubc.ca/edlib/egoffbib/1896.html]

BENGOUGH, John Wilson, 1851-1923.

THE/UP-TO-DATE/ [pict. ornament] /PRIMER:/A/FIRST BOOK OF LESSONS/FOR/LITTLE POLITICAL ECONOMISTS,/IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE/WITH PICTURES/BY/J.W. BENGOUGH/Designed for use in Schools, Colleges, Universities and other/Seats of Learning/NEW YORK/FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY/LONDON AND TORONTO/1896/ [lines 1-7 in ornamental lettering].
Half-title. c. 1895 Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1-75 pp. 182x124 mm. Text illus.
Light brown stiff wrappers. Front bears title, sub-title, pict. ornament & author within a dbl. border; back bears humorous, fictitious comments within a dbl. border.
F.f.l. n.p. 1895 (NUC).

Bengough was a cartoonist and a poet, born at Toronto, Ontario. In 1873 he founded Grip, a humorous weekly published in Toronto, and his cartoons in this journal gained a wide audience. Later he became a cartoonist with the Montreal Star and then with the Toronto Globe. He was an advocate of the single tax, prohibition and free trade. (Macmillan). Most of his political ideas are contained in his Up-to-date primer. The following is an extract from Lesson XI: 'But look at these Two! Are they not both Men? They are. Yet one is Fat and Rich, and one is Lean and Poor! How comes this? It must be that the Fat one has a will to Work, and so by his Toil on the Land gets all the Good Things he needs, while the Lean one will not Work and so must needs Starve and go in Rags. So it would seem, my Child; but things are not as they seem.'

See also: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_n4_v52/ai_14558024/print