Big People and Little People of Other Lands

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Big People and Little People of Other Lands, by Edward R. Shaw This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Big People and Little People of Other Lands Author: Edward R. Shaw Release Date: January 10, 2005 [eBook #14655] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIG PEOPLE AND LITTLE PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS*** E-text prepared by Al Haines 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 CONTENTS Preface China Japan Arabia Korea India Lapland Greenland Russia Switzerland Holland Patagonia The Pygmies The Indians The Philippine Islands Bangala The Amazon Valley 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.