Nature Readers. Sea-Side and Way-Side. No. 3.
Wright Julia McNair
Hardcover
(D. C. Heath & Co., March 15, 1896)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it --- and is the ACTUAL, ANTIQUE BOOK, not a reproduction. Sea-Side and Way-Side # 1 (of a 4-volume set) is filled with simple lessons of "scientific accuracy" & beautiful illustrations concerning the habits, homes, and anatomy of certain animals and written "in such words as are usually found in the most elementary reading-books....The Nature Readers are not offered as text-books in natural science, but rather as a contribution to the idea that facts of real and permanent value may be known, a noble taste may be cultivated, thought may be developed, and the initiatory steps in an increasingly popular study may be taken while a child is learning to read a certain number of English words.... Lessons fresh from the sea-shore and the field, where life is seen...in its own chosen homes and natural development, cannot fail to have an educative power of great value, even to minds of a very early age.... We have endeavored to impress upon the little Heir of life, in one of its highest forms, a comprehension of, and a reverence for, life, even in some of its lower manifestations...." ~ The Author The book measures 7.5 x 5.5 x ΒΌ and has 87, hand-cut pages. Among the subjects are crabs, wasps, bees, spiders and shell fish.