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HISTORY.

and Grade)

(^2nd

Stories of the

United States. By Anna Chase Davis. Large type Cloth,

40

The supply

30 cents; cents.

of

supplemena grade

tary reading for

two

advance of

in

lUus.

edition.

Price, Boards,

or

has

this

NA CHAS6 DAVIS

been

abundant.

Davis

is

But

Miss

one of the few who

have succeeded in writing

to

the children interesting matter.

Chas.

When

Supt. Schools, Bridgeport,

Ct.

a practical teacher undertakes to prepare history

stories for the

that she will teachers.

W. Deane,

youngest children

make them

it

is

pretty safe to conclude

usable from the standpoint of other

The author has begun

at the

Indian period, and the

second year children who, already familiar with Hiawatha, will

be ready and anxious to

know more

days.

Then

for the

coming of Columbus and the

of Indian hfe in the early

follows the story of the Norsemen,

making ready

later discoverers.

Inter-

esting events connected with colonial times follow each other till

the war cf 1812.

Lincoln,

If

The

closing

chapter

is

the story of

any unfortunate children are compelled

school after the two or three

first

years, they will

to leave

have acquired

enough knowledge of their own history to enable them to take it up intelligently in after life. Large, clear type, simple sentences, sho.t paragraphs and abundant full-page illustratior s, it

a

with numberless smaller ones of Indian

welcome among

all

Primary teachers.

life

will ensure

—Primary Education,