Carpenter's new geographical reader. North America

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Preface

For more than twenty years Carpenter's Geographical Readers have held a large place in the teaching of geography. They have supplied the flesh and blood necessary to clothe the dry bones of the geographic textbooks, and have made the countries and peoples living wholes in the minds of the pupils. In these books, written in the form of personally conducted tours over each continent, the children themselves have traveled with the author by land and sea from country to country and from city to city all over the globe, visiting the peoples on their farms and in their factories to learn how they live and work, and how each is associated with us and the other nations in the industries and trade of the world.

Carpenter's New Geographical Readers, of which this volume on North America is one, are revisions of the original books, based upon tens of thousands of miles of new travels and research in the countries described. The books have been rewritten in the light of these travels and in accordance with the economic, industrial, and commercial demands of the present. They have all the features that have made the Carpenter readers so much loved by the children, and they have many other features which will increase their value as textbooks to be used in connection with any supplementary work in geography.

The value of the changes will be seen by an examination of the present volume. The new "North America" is equipped with a series of problem and research questions and proposed journeys which, worked out in connection

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with the distance and other tables at the back of the book, will, it is believed, give each pupil a practical grasp of the chief cities and industrial localities of our continent, as well as a working knowledge of its resources and trade.

With the proper use of the text and the tables at the back, any child should be able to tell how he can travel from his home by the shortest route to the chief ports of the other continents, and give an approximate idea of the distance he will travel and how long he will be on the way. He should be able to trace goods to and from the great ports of North America, and learn the trade routes of the United States and other parts of the world.

Throughout the new "North America" the author has kept in mind the importance of the United States as a part of our continent. Indeed, the book might rightly be entitled a United States Reader, for it deals chiefly with the United States and with the other countries of North America as related to us. Moreover, it deals with the United States in the international place it has held since the World War, and the place it holds industrially and commercially in the work of the world.

In the new ''North America" the world relations of our country are kept uppermost in the minds of the children. The pupil studies the industries and resources of his own country as related to those of other parts of the world, and the part that each has in the new world of today. He learns also the important place that the United States now holds in this great world, and becomes proud of the fact that it is his country and that he is a part of it. The book bristles with Americanism. It is an American book written from the American standpoint for the American child, and it cannot but foster and stimulate patriotic Americanism in the minds of the pupils.

Contents

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I. General View or North x\merica ... 13

II. Our National Capital .... 20