ADVERTISEMENTS
CHALK-MODELING.
Relief mapsor representation of relief maps are absolutely essential to the intelligent teaching of geography. The most effective means that I have seen employed for the production of such maps is the chalk-modeling so long and successfully taught byMiss Ida C. Heffron. I can think of no other contribution to present text-books which would be of so great service to the teachers as a book from which they may learn chalk-modeling, to the end that any portion of a continent or country may be placed in relief before the eyes of the children on whatever scale the teacher desires.
I have knownMiss Heffron’swork for the last fifteen years and commend it without reserve.
O. T. Bright,Chicago, Ill.
It gives me great pleasure to commendMiss Heffron’swork to the attention of school officers, and to school teachers who desire assistance along the lines of expression in school work. Her large practical experience in teaching children in all the grades of public school work, furnishes a substantial basis for most excellent instruction in her chosen field.
Whatever success may have attended the introduction of Nature Study into this school has been largely due to her intelligence and skill in directing the work in drawing, painting and modeling.
Wilbur S. Jackman,Teacher of Natural Science, Cook County Normal School.
The value of Drawing and Modeling as modes of expression cannot be over-estimated. Every subject taught in our schools gains new power and life, as the brush or pencil, the clay or tool, tells its own truth concerning it. Literature, History, Science and Geography gain an immensely added value: each one becomes a living thing if the teacher possess the power to illustrate her subject. In Geography especially, the Chalk-Modeling originated byMiss Heffron, while teacher of Drawing in the Cook County Normal School, is of incalculable value. In fact, to those in whose schools it has been introduced, the wonder is that pupils ever comprehend the subject without its revealing and interpreting aid.
Kate Starr Kellogg,Prin. of Lewis School, Englewood, Ill.
I have seen the results ofMiss Ida Cassa Heffron’swork in teaching Drawing, Painting, Modeling and Illustrative Drawing, and Chalk-Modeling in Structural Geography, and I consider her work of the highest importance. It gives to training teachers, and teachers of general experience as well, a newer and deeper insight into the truth that Drawing with its allied subjects is a form of expression.
Jesse Lowe Smith,Supt. of Schools, Lexington, Ill.
FOR THE TEACHER’S DESK.
The Story of Our Planet.
ByT. G. Bonney, D. Sc., LL. D., F. R. S., F. S. A., F. G. S., Professor of Geology in University College, London; Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge; and Honorary Canon of Manchester. With six Colored Plates and Maps and about 100 illustrations. 1 Vol., large, 8vo. Price, $3.00
Educational Publishing Co.
HELPS IN GEOGRAPHY.
People and Places Here and There.
In this series, designed primarily for supplementary reading in schools, the plan has been to prepare books which shall have all the charm and interest attaching to volumes of travels written by the travelers themselves.
Vol. I. Stories of Australasia.
Fully Illustrated. Boards, 40 cents; Cloth, 60 cents.
Stories of Australasiais evidently a success, possessing simplicity and life. It is a difficult thing to get down to the plane of child life and comprehension without devitalizing matter and style. You have done it without loss of freshness.
D. L. Kiehle,St. Paul, Minn.
IN SAME SERIES.Stories of IndiaStories of ChinaStories of Northern EuropeStories of EnglandFully Illustrated.
IN SAME SERIES.
Fully Illustrated.
Price, Boards, 40 cents; Cloth, 60 cents.
Gentlemen:—People and Places, the sample copies ofAustralasia,India,China,Northern Europe, andEnglandare at hand. They are handsome books and what I have read of them up to this time makes me feel thatall,allour schools ought to be supplied with a full set of such books.
F. J. George,County Supt. Schools, Tell City, Ind.
Educational Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.