The children of the future
The Children of the Future is a late nineteenth-century educational treatise by Nora Archibald Smith, published in Boston and New York by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1898, aimed at parents and teachers on home schooling and kindergarten. The only picture is a printer's device, not an illustration from the text: a seated figure beneath a spreading tree, with a ribbon motto reading 'Tout bien ou rien' and a banner reading 'The Riverside Press'. A designer might take from it the compact, emblem-like arrangement of a central figure, banner text and border within a small square format.
