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face, 15 " " United States, British Isles, Roman Empire, Western Europe, North America, South America, Asia. (POSTAGE ON SINGLE MAPS, 5 CENTS.) * * * * * "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_. * * * * * =DESCRIPTION OF THE MAPS.= These maps are made in two forms, both with beautifully executed relief (embossed)--the cheaper ones of plain stiff paper similar to drawing paper (these are to be substituted for and used as outline map blanks), the others covered with a durable waterproof surface, that can be quickly cleaned with a damp sponge, adapted to receive a succession of markings and cleansings. Oceans, lakes, and rivers, as well as land, appear in the same color, white, so as to facilitate the use of the map as a =_geographical slate_=. * * * * * =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON _3 & 5 W. 18th St. ... New York City_= * * * * * =Evolution of Empire Series= UNITED STATES BY MARY PLATT PARMELE AUTHOR OF ="Who? When? What?" "France," "Germany," "England," Etc.= Price, Post-paid 75 Cents * * * * * _From New York Sun Editorial Dec._ 30, 1896. In too many of the little school histories there is but a tedious, bare narrative of apparently unconnected facts, and there is a profitless rigmarole of dates and names: but when the sequence of cause and effect is not obscured, and form and life are given to the actors, and the development of events and institutions is traced, the story of the United States becomes, as it should become, the most, fascinating as it is the most important of histories to Americans; and whatever in historical inquiry and writing promotes accuracy, adds detail, and clears up obscurity, increases the worth and the, charm of the work. W.B. Harison has published in his "Evolution of Empire" series, a brief historical sketch of the Uni
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