Some startling feats have been performed in the field of aeronautics. On August 7, 1910, John B. Moisant, an American, flew in a Bleriot monoplane across the English Channel, a distance of about twenty-five miles, in thirty-two minutes. He carried one passenger. On September 12, 1910, Claude Grahame-White, an Englishman, flew in a Farman biplane thirty-three miles in thirty-four minutes, near Boston, winning a prize of ten thousand dollars.
Every day new ideas take shape and are developed in some form that promotes the pleasure, comfort, or safety of mankind. There seems to be literally no limit to man's inventive power. His brain teems with thoughts and his hands labor incessantly to force his thoughts into material forms. He mounts higher and higher on the scale of civilization, casting away old ideas, inefficient methods, and worn-out machines, and substituting the new and wonderful things which he has achieved.
Graded Supplementary Reading Series
| Classic Fables. For First and Second Grades. Selected and edited by Edna Henry Lee Turpin. 127 pages, 12mo, cloth | 30 cents |
| Grimm's Fairy Tales. For Second and Third Grades. Selected and edited by Edna Henry Lee Turpin. 207 pages, 12mo, cloth | 40 cents |
| Andersen's Fairy Tales. For Third and Fourth Grades. Selected and edited by Edna Henry Lee Turpin. 253 pages, cloth | 40 cents |
| Stories from American History. For Fourth and Fifth Grades. Selected and edited by Edna Henry Lee Turpin. 191 pages, 12mo, cloth | 40 cents |
| Stories from Greek History. For Fourth and Fifth Grades. By Louise Diman. 239 pages, 12mo, cloth | 40 cents |
| Heroes of History. For Fifth and Sixth Grades. By Ida Prentice Whitcomb. 448 pages, 12mo, cloth | 60 cents |
| Brief Biographies from American History. For Fifth and Sixth Grades. By Edna Henry Lee Turpin. 299 pages, 12mo, cloth | 50 cents |
| Part I. For Fifth Grade. 142 pages, 12mo, cloth | 35 cents |
| Part II. For Sixth Grade. 163 pages, 12mo, cloth | 35 cents |
| English History Stories. For Sixth and Seventh Grades. 320 pages, 12mo, cloth | 50 cents |
| The Young American. A Civic Reader. For Sixth, Seventh and Eight Grades. Pratt Judson, LL.D. 259 pages, 12mo, cloth | 50 cents |