The Picturesque Geographical Readers, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Picturesque Geographical Readers, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles F. King and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Picturesque Geographical Readers, Vol. 3 Valuable suggestions and help have been received by the author from the eminent critic and educator, Mr. M. T. Pritchard, of Boston. Special assistance was also given the writer in the chapters Our Army, by his life-long friend, Capt. D. C. Pearson, of the regular army. In the Appendix will be found a valuable article on the making Of lantern slides, contributed by Principal Lyford, Of Worcester, Mass. He has made, in the way indicated, for use in his school nearly fifteen hundred slides. He has a Special room for the exhibition of pictures by the solar camera. This room is in constant use when the sun shines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.