RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
THE INSTRUCTIVE PICTURE BOOKS. 
A SERIES OF VOLUMES ILLUSTRATIVE OF NATURAL HISTORY AND OF 
THE VEGETABLE WORLD, WITH DESCRIPTIVE LETTERPRESS. 
Folio, price 73. 6d. each. 
No. 1. LESSONS FROM THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 
ANIMALS. By ADAM WHITE. Tenth Edition. With Fifty-four 
Folio Coloured Plates. 
No. 2. LESSONS FROM THE VEGETABLE WORLD. By 
the Author of "The Heir of Redcliffe." Sixth Edition. With 31 
double-page Coloured Plates. 
No. 3. LESSONS ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBU- 
TION OF ANIMALS. Fourth Edition. With Sixty Folio Coloured 
Plates. 
No. 4. PICTURES OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE 
IN ALL LANDS. Second Edition. With Forty-eight Coloured 
Plates. 
No. 5. PICTORIAL LESSONS ON FORM, COMPARISON, 
AND NUMBER. Eighth Edition. With Thirty-six folio Coloured 
Plates. 
" It is most desirable that young people should become acquainted with the 
natural objects around them without a laborious study of natural history. Few 
children can afford time to read much on such subjects, but all may profitably turn 
over a picture book and learn from it what is the appearance of the natural objects 
which are most frequently spoken of in daily conversation by the poets and the 
writers of apologue. Many of us come to maturity without knowing, to take one 
instance, what is the difference between the jackdaw, the raven, the rook, the chough, 
the carrion crow, and the hooded crow, and yet all these are English birds, to each 
of which a thousand associations are attached. We may see these animals in a 
museum, no doubt ; but they are buried among an infinite variety of kindred species, 
and they are seen but for a moment and under a glass, so that in general we carry away 
with us but a faint impression of their appearance. A picture book supplies a better 
means of recognising them and imprinting their forms on the memory, but then the 
selection of animals must be carefully made, and the drawing and colouring must be 
true to nature. The objects represented must be those we are most likely to hear of, 
and the pictures should be,so faithful that we can be at no loss in identifying the objects 
when we see them. All this has been accomplished most admirably in the series of 
' Instructive Picture Books' referred to. These volumes are among the most instruc- 
tive picture books we have seen, and we know of none better calculated to excite and 
gratify the appetite of the young for the knowledge of nature." Times. 
Uniform in Size and Price, 
THE INSTRUCTIVE ATLAS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY, 
intended for the use of Young Pupils. Containing 17 Coloured Maps, each 17 
inches by 14. Fcap. folio, 75. 6d. 
" This new atlas cannot fail to become a popular jne. It is evidently designed 
with a view to making it not so much a work of reference as an aid to the teacher. 
The individual maps, of which there are seventeen, are beautifully bold in outline, 
are not crowded with a host of unnecessary names, and are so clear and distinct that 
no difficulty whatever will be experienced in deciphering any single name. All the 
Maps are brought down to the present date, Western Europe and South Africa 
especially receiving careful attention." Schoolmaster. 
LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD, 55 Charing Cross, 8.W. 
