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ALTHOUGH this little book does not call for extended notice, it is worth mention as a type of educational work which is more common in the United States than in Great Britain. After a preliminary chapter dealing with cosmic evolution, it gives the main outline of the development of civilisation up to the end of the Stone Age in a logical order and an attractive form suitable for quite young children. In the whole it keeps fairly closely to accepted fact and theory, -i, while avoiding the more formal methods usually adopted in the elementary introductions to the results of archaeological study which have hitherto been offered to the British public.
The First Days of Man: as Narrated quite simply for Young Readers.
By F. A. Kummer. (The Earth's Story, 1.) Pp. 293. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 112, 825 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112825d0
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