Common-Sense Exercises in Geography (Teachers' Help Manual Series No. 9)

Printed wraps, 8vo; 50, (6)pp. About Near Fine with mild discoloration to wraps, else clean and crisp. An early and uncommon book by Seymour Eaton (1859-1916), best remembered for starting world's largest circulating library in 1900 (The Booklovers' Library) and coining the term "Teddy Bear. Relation to the Eaton's Commercial College family is unknown, but he was an advocate for education focusing on commerce and trade. Written in the style of a catechism, underscoring the long way education had come from focusing on morality and tenets of Christianity.

He confidently writes in the preface: "I have no apology to offer with this book. It deserves an appreciative reception. The questions are good and are such as will require original thinking on the part of both teacher and pupil. They have been prepared during the odd moments of a busy existence, and are intended to be suggestive rather than exhaustive. The age of the catechism has gone by, and young and old, in school and in the world, are reaching out after the knowledge that is above and beyond by the development of the power of thought within. Whether the subject be arithmetic or grammar, history or geography, your teaching will be a success only so far as you increase in your pupil a burning desire to know."