...he study of Perry's Spelling-book and The child's assistant; and, with his twin-sister Matilda, was soon initiated into the elements of arithmetic, grammar, and geography. The Columbian orator of Mr. Caleb Bingham , then a popular school-book in Boston and vicinity, gave him great delight. He early became an excellent reader; and his speech, as might be well inferred from the influences of a home of culture, ...