BIG PEOPLE AND LITTLE PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS

by

EDWARD R. SHAW

Dean of the School of Pedagogy
New York University

New York Cincinnati Chicago
American Book Company

1900







PREFACE

This little book is designed to meet the child's natural desire to
learn or hear of other people than those living in the part of the
world about him.

It has been thoroughly proved in our newer pedagogical practice that
the child in the first school year is much interested in descriptions
of the Indian and the Eskimo. Whenever descriptions of the Indian and
the Eskimo have been given him, they have not only fulfilled their