CHAPTER I. 



EDUCATIONAL. 



Bound paper. Art of book-binding. Book-binding, or covering. Outline maps. Maps. Em- 

 bossed maps. Illuminated maps. Framed maps. Charts. Globes. Outline globes. Sectional 

 globes. Incompressible globes. Blank globes. Embossed globes. Illuminated globes. Self- 

 inflating globes. Black and white-board. Slate and memorandum paper. Slate and pen-wiper. 

 Inkstands. Improved inkstands. Inkstand packing. Artists' India rubber. Pencil-heads. 

 Rules. Portfolios. Desk covering. Map carpets. Pens. Pencils and crayons. 



The importance of the improvements in gum-elastic for 

 educational purposes, have been briefly commented upon in the 

 first volume of this work, and they will also be briefly alluded to 

 in the description of the articles in this chapter. More might be 

 written upon the subject in regard to most of them, and too 

 much could not well be said in commendation of others. Much 

 remains to be done to perfect them, but enough has already 

 been done to prove that the cause of education will hereafter 

 be promoted by the use of many articles made of the vulcanized 

 fabrics. The cheapness of some of the articles, compared with 

 those made of other materials, gives double assurance of the cor- 

 rectness of this view. The expensiveness of globes, which are 

 admitted by all to be by far the best means of imparting and ob- 

 taining geographical and astronomical information, has rendered 

 them accessible to few persons, either pupils or teachers. The 

 adaptation and application of gum-elastic to these purposes, will 

 bring within the reach of every pupil in every common school, a 

 perfect globe, at a price within their means ; or maps more durable 

 than leather or parchment, at cheaper rates than paper maps are 



