THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS WHO LIVE ON THE ROUND BALL THAT FLOATS IN THE AIR

Seven Little Sisters who live on the Ball that floats in the Air. By Jane Andrews. — This e-book edition of a charming and favorite book is prefaced with a brief memorial sketch by one of the writer's school companions. From this we learn that Jane Andrews was not only the devoted, accomplished, and successful teacher that the public had known her to be, but that she was one of the early brilliant students of Antioch College under Horace Mann, and had carried her studies in such branches as the higher mathematics quite beyond the average college standard. Her favorite department as a teacher appears to have been descriptive geography, which she opened with singular skill to the child's interest and fancy,— of which these sketches are an illustration. Her method in writing was to set a class of intelligent children before her in imagination, and put her composition in the form of direct address to them. So that the book is a lesson and an example in the invaluable art of living or oral instruction, the "seven little sisters" being so many free-hand pictures of child-life, drawn to exhibit in warm colors so many regions and climates of the globe. The gifted and beloved writer died in Newburyport, in the summer of 1887.