E-text prepared by Al Haines
| Preface |
| China |
| Japan |
| Arabia |
| Korea |
| India |
| Lapland |
| Greenland |
| Russia |
| Switzerland |
| Holland |
| Patagonia |
| The Pygmies |
| The Indians |
| The Philippine Islands |
| Bangala |
| The Amazon Valley |
This little book is designed to meet the child's natural desire tolearn or hear of other people than those living in the part of theworld about him.
It has been thoroughly proved in our newer pedagogical practice thatthe child in the first school year is much interested in descriptionsof the Indian and the Eskimo. Whenever descriptions of the Indian andthe Eskimo have been given him, they have not only fulfilled theirpurpose in furnishing material for reading and the interrelation ofseveral activities of expression, but they have revealed to him thefact that there are other people in the world, who differ very muchfrom those he has seen.
His interest in different peoples at this time is in their physicalappearance, their dress, their ways of living, their customs, theirmanners, and it arises chiefly from the contrast which descriptions ofthese afford to familiar customs, conditions, and physicalcharacteristics.
The child is not interested, at that stage of his intellectualdevelopment which falls in the first or the second school year, in thesituation of countries. It does not matter to him exactly where,geographically, the people about whom he reads live. He is satisfiedif some general statement is made to the effect that they live far awayto the north, where the cold countries