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National Geographic : 1899 Jun
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GEOGRAPHY FOR TEACHERS second phase is represented in a class of popular works such as Stanford's Compendium of Geography, each volume of which, though intended for laymen, is written by an authority on the region covered; the work on the United States published by Appleton and Company five years ago, the editor a Harvard pro fessor, and each chapter contributed by a specialist of note; the National Geographic Monographs, published three years ago by the American Book Company for distribution among teachers, each a contribution from a geologist of note on some special region of our country. The National Geographic Society represents a third phase, in cluding, as it does, in its membership'geographers and discoverers of world-wide fame and private citizens with no claims on any science but that of interest. In order properly to index this feature of the Society and to further cement the relations between the upper and lower orders of the educational structure, the Society purposes to publish in THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAG AZINE such information as may best aid the progressive teachers among its membership to procure both knowledge of geographic facts and skill in their presentation. During the summer months most teachers strengthen their minds, exhausted by too much giving, by a little getting; hence the summer schools are crowded. In some of these good work is done along several geographic lines. Those teachers who re main at home need to study in this direction not the produc tions of the middleman, but the best authorities, for none can tell a fact either so tersely or so graphically as its discoverer. The two lines of work most emphasized of late in geographic teaching are physiography and economic geography-the pro cesses of the earth's preparation for man and of man's exploita tion of the earth. Two, at least, of the lately published school geographies treat well, though briefly, of the first. Shaler's First Steps in Geology, followed by the reading of Le Conte's Geology, which, though not of highest scientific value, is very easy read ing, will prepare for the comprehension and enjoyment of Geikie's large book. Directly following such a course may be studied the economic side of the subject as represented by King's The Soil, one of the Rural Science series, edited by L. H. Bailey, of Cornell; The Fertility of the Land, by Roberts; The First Principles of Agriculture, by Voorhees, or Vegetable Mould, by Darwin. All these involve processes related to agriculture. The Report on Iron and Steel in the Census of 1880; Economic
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