THE TARR and McMURRY 



GEOGRAPHIES 



RALPH S. TARR, B.S., P.6.S.A. 



Cornell University 



B Y 



and 



FRANK H. McMURRY, Ph.D. 



Teachers' College, Columbia University 



THE series of Geographies by Professors Tarr and McMurry is perhaps the only series of recent 

 years to contain a new method of presentation. These geographies differ from previously pub- 

 lished books on the same subject, in the following particulars : 

 First — Causal Treatment. This is a careful arrangement of the subject-matter in accordance 

 with Its relation to cause and effect. The fact is recognized by the best teachers that physiographic con- 

 ditions usually determine the location of human industries, the development of transportation routes, 

 the situation of cities, etc. Beginning then with the physical features, most of the other geographic 

 facts touching a certain locality arrange themselves as links in a causal chain and are then easily taught 

 in proper relation with one another, for they approach the form of a narrative rather than that of a 

 mere list of assertions as in the older text books. 



Second— Type Study is well illustrated in the study of our own country. The old method of treat- 

 ment by States, with its multiplicity of topics, is abandoned, and a comparatively small number of topics 

 are treated, but each subject is dealt with at some length. The authors' reasons for this innovation are : 

 that boundary lines between the States are for the most part arbitrary and mark no important differ- 

 ences in physiography, industry or customs ; that in a treatment by .States there is much repetition of 

 the same kind of facts to the confusion of the pupils. To avoid the waste of space and the lack of per- 

 spective of the old method, the new presentation is by groups of States and by the typical industries that 

 characterize them. More space can thus be given to each important subject, and the many details neces- 

 sary for a clear impression are associated as parts of one story. For instance, lumbering, fishing, etc., 

 receive their most detailed treatment in connection with New England ; coal and iron mining and the 

 attendant manufactures are discussed in connection with the Middle Atlantic States ; gold mining and 

 irrigation naturally are included under the Western States. 



Other new and attractive features of this series might be named : as the final summary at 

 the close of the entire subject, the new and convenient form, the use of home geography, the sugges- 

 tions and bibliographies for the use of teachers, the frequent reviews, etc. 



TWO-BOOK SERIES 



Introductory Geography .... (30 cts. 

 Complete Geography $1.00 



THE THREE-BOOK SERIES 



Book I — (4th and 5th years) Home 

 Geography and the Earth at a 

 Whole . i 60 cts. 



Book II —(6th year) North America 75 cts. 



Book HI — (nh and 8thi years) Europe 

 and Other Continent* .... 75 cts. 



THE FIVE-BOOK SERIES 

 Part I — Uth year) Home Geography 40 cts. 



Part II —(jth year) The Earth as a 

 Whole 40 cts. 



Part HI— (6th year) North America 75 cts. 



Part IV— (7th year) Europe, South 

 America, Etc 50 cts. 



Part V— (8th year) Asia and Africa, 

 with Review of North America 

 and Local Supplement .... 50 cts. 



SUPPLEMENTARY Y0LUMES 



New York State 30 cts. 3 Kansas 30 cts. 



The New England States ... 30 cts. S Ohio 30 cts. 



Utah 40 cts. 



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