Blackboard Drawing

A practical manual for teachers that presents chalkboard illustration techniques and classroom applications, arguing that drawing is a natural expressive language for both pupils and instructors. It teaches simple strokes, pressure variations, and the use of the chalk edge to produce a range of tones, with step‑by‑step exercises and photographic plate examples of leaves, trees, ferns, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on quick, illustrative sketches to clarify geography, history, literature, and nature study rather than on elaborate decoration, and on choosing motives from classroom life to keep drawings purposeful and instructive.