Abstract
THE illustrations are so numerous and attractive in this volume, that they make a picture-book of geography. The book has been constructed upon the plan recommended by the Committee of Fifteen appointed to consider the lines along which instruction in elementary science should be given (see NATURE, vol. liv. p. 310, 1896). The view of the Committee was that geography should be the study of the physical environment of man, and this conception has been borne in mind in the preparation of the volume before us. Beginning with familiar facts, the pupil is led naturally to knowledge beyond the range of his observation; generalisations never being made until the materials for their formation have been studied. He is encouraged to think for himself, by making much of the text interrogative, and providing material for the correlation and comparison of the characteristics of different districts; he is shown the value of map drawing and sand modelling in elementary geography, and relief maps give him good general ideas of the topography of the continents.
Natural Elementary Geography.
By Jacques W. Redway. Pp. 144. (New York: American Book Co., 1897.)
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Natural Elementary Geography. Nature 56, 565 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056565b0
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