By KATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPP, Ph. D.
Lecturer in Education in the Extension Division of the University of Chicago. Author of “The Place of Industries in Elementary Education.”
WHAT THE BOOKS ARE
Book I. THE TREE-DWELLERS. The Age of Fear.
Illustrated with a map, 15 full-page and 46 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth, square 12mo, 158 pages; 45 cents. For the primary grades.
THIS volume makes clear to the child how people lived before they had fire, how and why they conquered it, and the changes wrought in society by its use. The simple activities of gathering food, of weaving, building, taming fire, making use of stones for tools and weapons, wearing trophies, and securing coöperative action by means of rhythmic dances, are here shown to be the simple forms of processes which still minister to our daily needs.
Book II. THE EARLY CAVE-MEN. The Age of Combat.
Illustrated with a map, 17 full-page and 68 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth, square 12mo, 183 pages; 45 cents. For the primary grades.
In this volume the child is helped to realize that it is necessary not only to know how to use fire, but to know how to make it. Protection from the cold winters, which characterize the age described, is sought first in caves; but fire is a necessity in defending the caves. The serious condition to which the cave-men are reduced by the loss of fire during a flood is shown to be the motive which prompts them to hold a council; to send men to the fire country; to make improvements in clothing, in devices for carrying, and in tools and weapons; and, finally, to the discovery of how to make fire.
Book III. THE LATER CAVE-MEN. The Age of the Chase.