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UNDER this title Mrs. Macdonell has attempted to supply what she believes to be a want long felt in teaching geography to young children. She finds, as every teacher finds, that children prefer the map to the book, and so she provides the means of teaching geography by means of an atlas. The Atlas-Geography consists of nine double maps. First we have in each case a coloured map with the leading names filled in, and facing it a list of the leading features in the map, countries, their divisions, towns, oceans, islands, capes, rivers, &c., which the children learn by heart, fixing at the same time their positions on the maps. Following this is a corresponding uncoloured map, without names, on which the children should be able to point out the features without assistance. Facing this, is an interesting and simple descriptive account of the leading characteristics of the continent or country to which the map refers. It will thus be seen that in the bands of a painstaking and judicious parent or teacher the Atlas-Geography ought to prove a most valuable help in interesting children in the subject, and in enabling them to acquire the leading facts. The maps are well executed, clear, and not over-crowded; they are the World, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America, the British Isles, and Palestine.
The Atlas-Geography.
By A. H. Macdonell. (London: H. K. Lewis, 1881.)
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The Atlas-Geography . Nature 24, 556 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024556a0
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