New York Cincinnati Chicago
American Book Company
1900
CONTENTS
| [Preface] |
| [China] |
| [Japan] |
| [Arabia] |
| [Korea] |
| [India] |
| [Lapland] |
| [Greenland] |
| [Russia] |
| [Switzerland] |
| [Holland] |
| [Patagonia] |
| [The Pygmies] |
| [The Indians] |
| [The Philippine Islands] |
| [Bangala] |
| [The Amazon Valley] |
PREFACE.
This little book is designed to meet the child's natural desire to learn or hear of other people than those living in the part of the world about him.
It has been thoroughly proved in our newer pedagogical practice that the child in the first school year is much interested in descriptions of the Indian and the Eskimo. Whenever descriptions of the Indian and the Eskimo have been given him, they have not only fulfilled their purpose in furnishing material for reading and the interrelation of several activities of expression, but they have revealed to him the fact that there are other people in the world, who differ very much from those he has seen.
His interest in different peoples at this time is in their physical appearance, their dress, their ways of living, their customs, their manners, and it arises chiefly from the contrast which descriptions of these afford to familiar customs, conditions, and physical characteristics.