A Geographical Reader. A Collection of Geographical Descriptions and Narrations, from the best Writers in English Literature. Classified and arranged to meet the wants of Geographical Students, and the higher grades of reading classes. By JAMES JOHONNOT, author of "Principles and Practice of Teaching." 12mo. Cloth. 418 pages. This Reader is not simply a compilation of dry statistics from the textbook of geography. It is a carefully selected and classified series of extracts from standard works of travel by well-known writers, giving spirited, cntertaining, and instructive accounts of noted places, and the physical features of the globe, and are all of high literary merit. No more interesting or suitable work for reading classes in intermediate or grammar grades, or for home libraries, could be selected. "Mr. Johonnot has made a good book, which, if judiciously used, will stop the immense waste of time now spent in most schools in the study of geography to little purpose. The volume has a good number of appropriate illustrations, and is printed and bound in almost faultless style and taste."-National Journal of Education. An Historical Reader, for Classes in Academies, High-Schools, and Grammar-Schools. By HENRY E. SHEPHERD, M. A. 12mo. Cloth. 424 pages. New edition. "This book is one of the most important text-books issued within our recollection. The preface is a powerful attack upon the common method of teaching history by means of compendiums and abridgments. Professor Shepherd has 'long advocated the beginning of history-teaching by the use of graphic and lively sketches of those illustrious characters around whom the historic interest of each age is concentrated.' This volume is an attempt to embody this idea in a form for practical use. Irving, Motley, Macaulay, Prescott, Greene, Froude, Mommsen, Guizot, and Gibbon are among the authors represented; and the subjects treated cover nearly all the greatest events and greatest characters of time. 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