Each book is to one or more different countries and contains from 160 to 240 pages, with colored maps, colored flags, and from 60 to 80 illustrations. Complete alphabetical index.
The books have been selected for use by State Library Boards and Reading Circles, adopted as supplementary readers in most of our largest cities, and have received the enthusiastic support of teachers and superintendents everywhere.
The following volumes have been issued:
Alaska and Canada
China and Japan
Cuba and Porto Rico
England and Wales
France and Switzerland
Germany
Hawaii and the Philippines
Holland, Belgium and Denmark
Italy, Spain and Portugal
Mexico and Central America
Northern Wilds (of America)
Norway and Sweden
Russia and Austria
Scotland and Ireland
South Africa and Up the East Coast
Turkey, The Balkans and Greece
Our Western Wonderland (California)
Throughout the Great Southwest (of U.S.)
Some Strange Places and Peoples in Our
Southwestern Land (New Mexico and
Arizona)
The books are handsomely bound in uniform cloth editions, size
5½ × 7½ inches. Price, per volume, 50 cents.
New Publications
THE CORN LADY: The Story of a Country Teacher's Work. By (Miss) Jessie Field, Co. Supt. of Schools, Page County, Iowa. "The Corn Lady" is composed of a series of delightful and inspiring letters from "A Country Teacher" to her appreciative country "Daddy" on country–school and country–life improvement. Each letter is a record of practical experience, teeming with understanding of and enthusiasm for an awakening of true, contented, productive rural life. With twenty–five illustrations from photographs, and a supplement containing the author's Farm Arithmetic—twenty–nine pages of rural arithmetic problems. 107 pages. Cloth. Price, 50 cents.