Excerpt from The British Empire
The success which has attended the publication of the Descriptive Geographies of the World (Black) has clearly demonstrated the educational value of using original authorities in the teaching of geography. The present volume has been prepared in response to repeated inquiries from teachers for class use either as a text-book or as a reader. The extracts are chiefly selected from the six volumes of the Descriptive Geographies of the World (Black), with the addition of a few additional passages bearing chiefly on occupations. The editor has throughout kept in view the requirements of pupils. Some of the more difficult extracts have been slightly condensed, and occasionally somewhat simplified in language. The subject-matter has been arranged in what is believed to be a true educational order, proceeding as far as possible from the known to the unknown. It is hoped that this arrangement will bring out such geographical unity as is possessed by our vast Empire, and that it will also facilitate the comparison of similar regions. The present volume will
thus be found specially useful by the growing number of teachers who adopt the regional method, while it presents no difficulty to those who prefer to retain the more conventional order.
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