In Four Folly Illustrated Volumes

By Chas. F. King

Master Dearborn Grammar School, Boston; President National Summer School, Saratoga Springs; Author of "Methods and Aids in Geography"

First Book: Home And School.

940 pages. Over 125 Illustrations. Price, 50 cents net. By mail, 55 cents.

Second Book: This Continent Of Ours.

320 pages. Fully Illustrated, Price, 72 cents net. By mail, 83 cents.

Third Book: The Land We Live IN. Part I.

840 pages. 158 Illustrations. Price, 56 cents net. By mail, 64 cents.

Fourth Book: Land We Live In. Part II.

210 pages. 150 Illustrations. Price, 56 cents net. By mail, 64 cents.

True concepts of real geography can only be formed through travel or front pictures. Travelling is costly; but an excellent and accurate substitute is found in the pictures produced by the photographic camera. The photographer has been round the world and made his report. We call upon him to aid us in telling others what he has seen.

Supplementary reading is in great demand, but only books which combine the useful with the interesting are worthy of being introduced into the school-room.

The four volumes of the Picturesque Readers now in course of preparation are not only intensely interesting, but they contain all the "Essentials of Geography" in so compact and vivid a form that they can be read by a bright child of ten in a year as supplementary reading in school, or at home in a few weeks, thus meeting the great demand "for less time in geography."

We call attention to the following

Points Of Superiority

1 Ample use of pictures - over 100 large and elegant pictures in Vol. I. 600 illustrations in the series.

2 All pictures made from photographs, photographic slides, French and English designs, or by the best American artists.

3 Written in narrative style.

4 Language adapted to children's comprehension.

5 Carefully prepared by personal narrative, wise selection, and adaptation.

6 Equally well adapted for home reading and school purposes.

7 Properly graded for the different classes in grammar schools.

8 Containing a vast amount of information for old and young, for teacher and taught.

9 A happy combination of the useful and interesting.

10 From these readers can be easily taught Geography, Reading, Spelling,

Dictation, and Composition.

11 All mere map explanations and descriptions carefully avoided.

12 Costly in preparation, but cheap in price.

13 These books can be used in place of, or in connection with, geographies.

14 These fascinating geographical readers will take the place of the stupid sets of map questions and columns of statistics.