REAL THINGS IN NATURE 



A Reading Book of Science 

 for American Boys and Girls 



By EDWARD S. HOLDBN 



LIBRARIAN OF THE U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT 

 Cloth i2mo Illustrated 65 cents net 



This volume has chapters on Physics Heat, Light, Electricity, etc. and on 

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 kind. Each chapter is a very brief and very clear treatise, complete so far as it 

 goes, which emphasizes the methods of the subject in hand, and illustrates them 

 by constant reference to practical things. Many simple experiments are suggested, 

 nearly all of which the child will wish to try. Particular stress is laid on matters 

 that form part of a child's daily life. His daily experiences are explained, so that, 

 for example, the essential principles of the telephone, the dynamo, will be under- 

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 He ought not to regard an electric motor as a mysterious piece of benevolent 

 magic. There should be some one to explain to him what it is and why it does its 

 work. This volume performs the office. It answers the questions that every boy 

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 from the best sources and each one is accompanied by a very full title. Merely to 

 turn to the cuts and to read their titles constitutes a tolerably complete elementary 

 course of instruction. The author of the book, is a teacher of experience, having 

 been successively Instructor at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, Professor 

 in the University of Wisconsin, President of the University of California, and 

 Director of the Lick Observatory. 



Tarr and McMurry Geographies Supplementary Volume 



TEXAS 



By B. G. LITTLBJOHN, A.M. 



PRINCIPAL WEST BROADWAY SCHOOL, GALVESTON, TEXAS 

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Containing chapters on the Physiography of the State, Agricultural Industries, 

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