Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: collections of extracts from the contemporaneous literature of the different periods of English and American history that might profitably be used for reference, or even as texts, in high schools. A few of the most available of these collections are as follows: American History. Hart, Source Bool; of American History, for Schools and Readers. (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1899.) One volume; 60 cents. Suitable for class use. Old South Leaflets (Old South Meeting House, Boston) ; 133 or more numbers. Single leaflets, 5 cents; $4 per 100. Bound volumes (25 numbers), $1.50 per volume. American History Leaflets. (Lovell and Co., New York.) More than 30 numbers; 10 cents a copy. English History. Kendall, Source Book of English History. (The Macmillan Co., New York, 1900.) One volume; 80 cents. Colby, P. M., Selections from the Sources of English History. (Longmans, Green and Co., New York.) $1.50. General History. Munro, A Source Book of Roman History. (D. C. Heath and Co., Boston.) $1. Robinson, Readings in European History. (Ginn and Co., Boston.) $1.50. It is impossible to understand the history of a country without knowing its physiography and the development of its political geography. Civilization varies with the natural adaptabilities of the land, and almost every change of territorial limits is bound up with some crisis in national life. Therefore history necessarily presupposes a knowledge of physical geography, and includes diligent attention to historical. For this reason there should be constant reference to relief and epoch maps, and especially a free use of outline maps. It is not necessary, but is rather for historical purposes a waste of time, for the students to draw the outlines. Neither is it well for them to be trained merely to c...