=WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON
    3 and 5 West 18th Street, New York City=

SIMPLE LESSONS IN THE

STUDY OF NATURE

By I.G.  OAKLEY

This is a handy little book, which many a teacher who is looking for means to offer children genuine nature study may be thankful to get hold of.

Nature lessons, to be entitled to that name, must deal with what can be handled and scrutinized at leisure by the child, pulled apart, and even wasted.  This can be done with the objects discussed in this book; they are under the feet of childhood—­grass, feathers, a fallen leaf, a budding twig, or twisted shell; these things cannot be far out of the way, even within the stony limits of a city.

Nor are the lessons haphazard dashes at the nearest living thing; on the contrary, they are virtually fundamental, whether with respect to their relation to some of the classified sciences, or with reference to the development of thought and power of expression in the child himself.

The illustrations are few, and scarcely more than figures; it is not meant to be a pretty picture-book, yet is most clearly and beautifully printed and arranged, for its material is to be that out of which pictures are made.  It will be found full of suggestions of practical value to teachers who are carrying the miscellaneous work of ungraded schools, and who have the unspeakable privilege of dealing with their pupils untrammelled by cast-iron methods and account-keeping examination records.

    =_Sample copy, 50 Cents, post-paid_=

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    =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON
    3 & 5 W. 18th St. . . .  New York City=

=KLEMMS’=

=RELIEF PRACTICE MAPS.=

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=LIST OF MAPS.=

Small size, 9-1/2 x 11 { Plain,                       5 cents each.
{ With Waterproofed surface   10   "    "

Europe, Asia, Africa; North America, South America, East Central
States, New England, Middle Atlantic States, South Atlantic
States, Palestine, Australia.

Large size, 10 x 15 { Plain,                     10 cents each.
{ With Waterproofed Surface, 15   "     "

United States, British Isles, Roman Empire, Western Europe,
North America, South America, Asia.

    (POSTAGE ON SINGLE MAPS, 5 CENTS.)

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“I would advise =Sunday-school teachers= to use, in connection with the lessons of 1897, =Klemm’s Relief Map of the Roman Empire=.  Every scholar who can draw should have a copy of it.  Being blank, it can be beautifully colored:  waters, blue; mountains, brown; valleys, green; deserts, yellow; cities marked with pin-holes; and the journeys of Paul can be traced upon it.”—­MRS. WILBUR F. CRAFTS, President International Union of Primary Sabbath-School Teachers of the United States.