American inventions and inventors . ail price^/^ cents.(For introductory price to Schools, send for Circular.) It starts out with the idea that the main thing that the child needs,in order to get his interest aroused in detailed history, is to get first of alla succession of powerful impressions of what the course of American lifefor the last four centuries means. So it is the significant epochs whichare thrown up, and it is a combination of biography and episodes that^ves the color and connects the facts. Emersons saying that everyinstitution is but the lengthened shadow of a man was evidentl
American inventions and inventors . ail price^/^ cents.(For introductory price to Schools, send for Circular.) It starts out with the idea that the main thing that the child needs,in order to get his interest aroused in detailed history, is to get first of alla succession of powerful impressions of what the course of American lifefor the last four centuries means. So it is the significant epochs whichare thrown up, and it is a combination of biography and episodes that^ves the color and connects the facts. Emersons saying that everyinstitution is but the lengthened shadow of a man was evidently one ofthe inspirations of this delightful little book.—The School Journal. Silver, Burdett and Company, Publishers, Boston. New York. Chicago. Stepping Stones to Literature* A Unique Series of Eight School Readersupon an entirely New Plan, Brilliantly Illus-trated with Masterpieces and Original Drawings. By Sarah Louise Arnold, Supervisor of Schools, Boston, Mass.,and Charles B. Gilbert, Superintendent of Schools, Newark, N. This series marks a new era in School Readers. It combines with the necessarytechnique of reading, a real course in literature. It has the sincere literary atmos-phere. The early volumes create the beginnings of a literary judgment. Theadvanced volumes comprehend the whole range of the worlds best writing. Thepupil, at the end of the course, knows what literature means. In this achievement these Readers stand absolutely alone. They justify thefollowing deliberate characterizations: They are the most interesting Readers ever published. They surpass all other Readers in wise technique. They are superlative in stimulating thought and creating taste. They are unequaled in attractiveness of illustration. They give a better idea of the worlds great literature, and more of it, thancan be found anywhere else in the same space. A Mark of Their Acceptability, In their first year they were adopted by Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Phila-delphia, Chicago, St. Loui
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