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,
