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    Sept . 2 , XS 89 The Publishers ' Circular , 06 ^

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    A MARVELLOUS SUCCESS . —THE MAPS OF THE FUTURE , THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY GREATLY 8 IMPUFIED . SEVEN GOLD AND SILVER MEDALS AWAEDED 1884 to 1888 . ' The ' Excelsior' School Maps . Adopted throughout Great Britain , the United States , and the Colonies . 30 Maps now ready , each 4 by 5 fe pri et , ce moun 13 * . ted each on . cloth , and varnished , with rollers , Map Mr s far . Bacon in advance entered of upon any this others important extant , and undertaking determined - believing that , at that whatever it -was possible cost , they to produce should fully a set justify of Large their School title choaeTr ^ ExoeiSiOT T' ^^ B Tje' ^ mSS ^^ S ^ claixns to have accomplished , and that his already famous Excelsior Maps stand wholly without a rival . _ ' mercial A common with the fault School with Map School . This Maps error Mr has . - been Bacon that has catef of overcrowding ully avoided . — The evidently selection with of the such view details of combining as are only the required comfor Educational purposes affords ample room for that Boldness of both Outline and Lettering so essential for class teaching . Another important feature—and one which gives the remarkable character to these Maps—istheadoptTon ^ Sf ^ our separat produce e a colour clearness printings wholly for unparalleled the Outline , , and Names also ¦ , Town enable Spots the , Physical and Hills . and Tne Political various features features to thus be separately - strongly studied contrasting and without confusion . - - The general verdict of Educational Authorities in favour of these Maps has surpassed all expectation . The special-features may be thus briefly summarised : — i No No attempt details to bey combine ond those the of Commercial Educational with requirements the School . Map . Bail Capitals ways in of Red Countries —Trunk shown lines by only a . red square . Names Town printed -spots in in Red Black —large —very and large very and conspicuous readable . . Steamship Battlefields routes shown in Red by crossed —with sword distances s and . dates . Outlines Hills in and light Rivera Brown in Blue —prominent —very bold and and distinct clear . . Timei , * Test dials Maps on / eacb without Meridian names line , the . Red Town-spots specially conspicuous . EXCELSIOR MEMORY MAPS 60 now - — ' ready Merit , \ d , and . each will . achieve , success . '—Practical Teacher . COMPLETE CATALOGUES AND SPECIMENS POST-FREE * London : G . W . BACON & CO ., Educational Publishers , 127 Strand .

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    litera A ture comp , and lete biogra " JEncyclopcecbia phy , geograp and hy ep , and itome chronology of pretty ?— well British all the Mail current .. knowled " ge in art , science ; Imperial 32 mo . SECOND marbled ed ges , T ornamental ION , NOW clot READY h , 3 s . 6 d . . ; roan , 45 . 6 d . Xj O "VST'S POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA : A COMPENDIUM OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOR READY REFERENCE . Containing : 1 , 206 columns , upwards of 25 , 000 References , and numerous Plates . Specialists in many departments of learning Have contributed to this volume * OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . public - The '— handiest Court Circ book ular of . reference ever offered to the we ' have The yet neatest seen , /— sm Spectato allest , and r . most " useful Encyclopaedia tiflo ' * Undoubtedly Explains or otherwise almo . ' contains — st European every known much Mail subj more . ect informat or object ion , s than cien- which ( « Tn The can tw pith DM be put n of « Mo volumes easily -i in « has * the * been pocket « packed i . ' —Scotsman * into a * little ¦ . * book facts to ^ be vfcry briefly and yet thoroughly vecor portability/—Morning Advertiser . J > of reference ' It is no hasty of a very compilation solid and , but useful a comprehensive character / ^^ work ^ tentious ' More Encyclopaedias , information ' i of s g several iven than volumes in many / more pro ~ * . wonderfully « A veritable * graphic multum and in extensive parvo . - . . Its . Daily Its information store Chro of nicle facts is wel . is l «^ little information about almost Sheffield W everything eekly Telegraph Dispatch / . . up * to An date enormous /—Leeds mass Merc of ury information . / "" is not « A enough perfect marvel to say that of condensation we know of and noth arrangement ing to surpass . It * V « ry correct and trustworthy/— Saturday Standard . Review . approaches this miniature it/— E Glasgow ncyclopaedia Herald —we know . of nothing "Which The First Edition ofJTen Thousand Copies was exhausted within a few weeks of publication . London : SAMPSON St . Dunstan LOW ' s House , MARSTON , Fetter , & EARLE ne , Fleet & Street RIVINGTON , E . G . , Limited , II

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 2, 1889, page 1065, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02091889/page/39/