Photograph from Leonard A. Williams 



THE JOY OP THE SEPARATE PICTURE (SEE PAGE S°o) 



Louise and Mabel, Tom, Dick, and Harry forget the lure of marbles, tag, or teasing while 

 studying these. At the words, "Pictures down," straight backs and shining eyes will attest in- 

 tense desire in each eager brain to tell the wonders of a particular illustration. How different 

 the expression when all the pupils are reading the same paragraph and every one knows what 

 is going to be said ! 



interests is seen in their wide-spread use 

 in teaching English to our foreign-born 

 soldiers during the war. The magazines 

 were cut up and the pictures mounted on 

 charts with appropriate sentences for 

 conversation.* 



Again, schools and libraries everywhere 

 have been mounting the pictures on sepa- 

 rate sheets for teaching, not only geog- 

 raphy, but history and literature as well. 

 However, the teachers do not want to cut 

 up their magazines ; they have no time to 

 mount the pictures, and they want text 

 written especially for their needs and 

 classes. 



A CAEE WHICH MEANS WIDENING SERVICE 



And so it has come about that, because 

 of the great work the National Geo- 

 graphic Society has performed in bring- 

 ing pictures into the school-room and in 

 revivifying the teaching of geography, an 



* See "Bringing the World to Our Foreign- 

 Language Soldiers," by Christina Krysto, in 

 the National Geographic Magazine; (August, 

 1918). 



insistent call has been sounded for a 

 greater responsibility and an ever-widen- 

 ing service. 



For some time there has been a coun- 

 try-wide demand for National Geo- 

 graphic pictures on separate sheets for 

 easier handling in the school-room, and 

 the Society, ever glad to cooperate to the 

 fullest extent in making geography fasci- 

 nating and intelligible to every one, has 

 spared neither time nor effort to arrange 

 these pictures in the best possible form 

 for the schools. 



The wealth of its pictures simplifies 

 the problem of selection and adaptation. 

 There is literally a picture for every phase 

 of geography teaching, for every topic, 

 even for every word. 



In accordance with the invariable cus- 

 tom of the Society to avoid in the Maga- 

 zine highly technical phraseology, but al- 

 ways to give the richest of geographic 

 material with scientific accuracy, and yet 

 in such form as to be enjoyed by every 

 one, so these pictures are arranged for 

 the children and the schools. 



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