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168 Fleet Street : August 16, 1886.
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ONE of the most useful functions of geog...
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Mr. George Moore has bidden good-bye to ...
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' ' '¦ '¦ : v " ' : > ^ ' ^ m ^ mm ^ m ^ S 66 The Publishers' Gireula * i ^ liil ^^
168 Fleet Street : August 16, 1886.
168 Fleet Street : August 16 , 1886 .
One Of The Most Useful Functions Of Geog...
ONE of the most useful functions of geograp — ~ 4 k hical societies is the recording ^^ of
educational progress in their especial branch of study . This work , in its own way , is quite
as important as the encouragement of explorers or missionaries . Those who recognise
this fact will not be slow to look with favour upon Jm . a book which the Royal w Geograp - ~ - " hical
Society issued only a day or two ago . It is the report of the proceedings of the Society in
reference to the improvement of geographical education . Much of the usefulness of the
volume is lost through the absence of an index ; but anyone who has a genuine interest
in geographical Study will be pleased to peruse the book and to acknowledge its value . Mr .
J . S . Keltie ' s report introduces the subject , and we fancy that to him is due the credit of
having to some extent revived the present interest in geograp . i ^^ ^» hical tuition . The report ^»
he has furnished speaks of the study of the subject in the universities and schools of Great
Britain , the Continent , and North America , all the matter being the result of personal
observation and inquiry . It would be difficult to speak too highly of the systematic Way in
which these inquiries have been arranged , and of the amount of care which has beea bestowed
upon their preparation . Mr . Keltie writes somewhat modestly regarding the exhibition
of geographical appliances which , under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society ,
has proved so useful as a display and as a medium for instruction .
Mr . Keltie ventures to say that c too much importance still attaches to books , and too
little to good large-scale wall-maps , geographical pictures , good reliefs , accurate and
carefully executed sheet maps or atlases , and the living voice of the teacher himself . '
Proceeding to the consideration of the subject of text-books , the report includes the
following remarks : 'It is with text-books as with maps ¦ »¦ . So far as genera ¦«— ^ l p hysical mr geo v _^
-graphy goes , such manuals as those of Mr . Geikie and Mrs . Somerville leave little to be
desired ; but then these authors had complete knowledge of their subject . Of ordinary
geographical text-books there is no end . Quite recently elementary manuals , modelled after those which in Germany - are used for
" Heimatskunde , " have been V introduced into elementary w schools . This is hopeful M ,.
Geographical " readers " have also become common ; and , when used only as an adjunct ^ to
the systematic teaching of the subject , they are of service . In the higher-grade schools ,
some one or other of the ordinary familiar text-books are used . We all know their K . ==
One Of The Most Useful Functions Of Geog...
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piled by persons who have no special knowled ^ ^* ge f * of : . geography * m * ** + Jh - ^ f , for ,. = in ¦ J this i country . — . m fj ^ it ^ is XJ 9
believed that , as anybody can teach the subject V , " so anyW body can write . si a text ¦ -book —— of - * - » it « , mj . t
Since teachers themselves are , as a rule , quite ignorant , and as in England we find none of
the Instructive manuals for the use of teachers to be found on the Continent , it is the duty of
the compiler to put everything into his work the most prominent features of which , as a ,
rule , are long lists of names . The advanced manuals are thus far too bulky , and the kind
of information given is of a superficial kind . ' x We we agre asrree e with witn the tne- - writer writer to xo some some , , extent extent
but he must admit that in the so-called , ' readers' a considerable advance has been
made in the mode of inculcating geographical knowledge , and that it is rash to say that they
are compiled by persons who have no special knowledge . The difficulty in the way of
procuring good text-books is as clear to publishers as it is to teachers ; but any innovations should
proceed from the latter . Although publishers have more than , once directed rightly the
current of education , they cannot support new fashions recklessly ; and , in elementary
classbooks , the two subjects which are the most
unsatisfactory are grammar and geography . trt .
Mr. George Moore Has Bidden Good-Bye To ...
Mr . George Moore has bidden good-bye to the English novel-reading public . We are not
prepared to say how far his determination not to publish anything more in this country may
affect the vitality of English literature , but at the same time we cannot help being interested
in the reasons given by Mr . Moore for his I sudden retreat . 'It is of course painful to I
me , ' he says ; * to have to defend myself from I the charge of being a producer of indecent I
literature , and it is humiliating to the calling I to which I have the honour to belong that such I
a charge could be brought against any writer whose works are openl X . y read and publicl MT y dis- 1
cussed ; for I am not alluding to the ordinary I howl ^•^ fc ^*^ * * *^ of ***^ " ^ fc- ^ moral Kn ^^^ w ^ BT ^^ WV 4 * indi ^» 4 *^» V * d »* h gnation J ^ h ^ p ^^^ P ^ T ^ b ^^ dh ^ K with V V ^^ ^^^»^^ which v w " ^^ " ^ — all ^ I ^^
to writers the have far more been assailed practical by protest their critics ¦ which , but is
being stalls in made the against United me King by dom all the , and railway all ¦ the book cir- - culating libraries under the control of ¦ Messrs .
Mudie and Smith . ' I jLfJJL Mr . . This JXA M . oore KJKrl sli g ' s O htl novels 11 U y c onfused O have Xl » Vt 7 not tllF sentence U been UWU . ¦ means ¦ U considered «^ JU 0 » u v that " H
to ppsseas that moral tone which would ¦ permit Messrs oth . to Mudie offer , Messrs the books . W . to H . their Smith ¦ subscribers & Sons and I
circulating Ul Everyone / JUCJ ers . 0 l » i ; yJLWL must libraries ViXIKJ know UUUAn have that a huavy tha UIJtC ¦ 7 ¦ XJ prpprietors responsibly . . OUMO i 1 ^**— oi . H M ^ H
towards their custom ers ; and in the presen t casern
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 16, 1886, page 866, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16081886/page/4/
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