TWENTIETH CENTURY TEXT-BOOKS. 



COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. 



A Commercial Geography. 



By Cyrus C. Adams, F.A.G.S., Editorial 

 Staff of the New York Sun, formerly President 

 Department of Geography, Brooklyn Institute. 

 i2mo. 505 pages. Cloth, $1.30. 



A handbook for the student, the teacher, the scholar, 

 and the business man. An extraordinary success in 

 text-book making and text-book selling. Three large 

 editions in two months after publication. 



Characteristic features: Prepared expressly for edu- 

 cational purposes ; topics indicated in heavy type to 

 facilitate study ; tables compiled from the latest data ; 

 120 maps, 40 diagrams, 16 full-page half-tone illustrations ; 

 dry details not massed, but facts given in proper sequence ; 

 text not choked with statistics, but placed in full at end 

 of chapters ; prominence given to inventions and processes 

 that facilitate production ; basal principles of the geogra- 

 phy of commerce stated, connecting effect with cause. 



This text-book marks a new era in commercial educa- 

 tion. Its signal success and the lavish praise it has brought 

 from the leaders of the movement are sufficient testi- 

 monies to its merit. Adopted by high schools, normal 

 schools, business schools, commercial colleges everywhere, 



"The most scholarly as well as the most teachable book of the kind 

 that I have seen." — Arthut D.Arnold, Principal High School, Stough 

 ton, Mass. 



" We have adopted Adams's Commercial Geography, and it is giv- 

 ing entire satisfaction." — E. L. Brown, Principal North Side High 

 School, Denver, Col. 



" I am greatly pleased with it. It furnishes just the information 

 that is often very difficult, if not impossible, for a teacher to obtain. It 

 can not fail to meet vifith success." — P. E. Spaulding, City Superin- 

 tendent of Schools, Passaic, N. jf. 



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