﻿APPLETONS' 



AMERICAN STANDARD GEOGRAPHIES. 



BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION, 



And giving Special Prominence to the Industrial, Commercial, and 



Practical Features. 



The remarkable success whieh Appletons' Readers have attained is due 

 to the fact that no effort or expense was spared to make them not only 

 mechanically superior, but practically and distinctively superior, in their 

 embodiment of the best results of modern experience in teaching, and of 

 the methods followed by the most successful and intelligent educators. In 

 the same spirit, and with the same high aim, this new series of Geog- 

 raphies has been prepared, and it is in harmony, therefore, with the active 

 educational thought of the times. 



The series comprises two books for graded schools. 



I. Appletons' Elementary Geography. Small 4to. 108 pages. 



In this book the aim is to develop and present the subject in accord- 

 ance with the views of advanced teachers, and to embody the most natural 

 and philosophical system. It treats the subject objectively, makes knowl- 

 edge precede definitions, and presents facts in their logical connections, 

 taking gradual steps from the known to the unknown. 



II. Appletons' Higher Geography. Large 4to. 129 pages. 



In this volume, the aim has been to combine beauty of typography, 

 usefulness of illustration, attractive maps, and every element of mechan- 

 ical superiority, with a variety of original features, and the improved 

 methods followed by the most successful teachers of the day. 



Prominence is given to a consideration of the leading Industries, as the 

 results of certain physical conditions, and especially to Commerce, a 

 feature which will not fail to be acceptable in this practical ago. The 

 pupil is taught to what the great cities owe their growth, the main routes 

 of travel and traffic, where and how our surplus products find a market, 

 whence we obtain the chief articles of daily use, and the exports which 

 the leading commercial cities contribute to the world's supply. 



The Maps, both Political and Physical, challenge comparison in poiLt 

 of correctness, distinctness, and artistic tiniah. Special editions for the 

 various States have been prepared, giving extra maps and descriptive 

 matter. 



D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 



NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. ATLANTA. SAN FRANCISCO. 



