The books comprising the English Through Pictures are the remarkable invention of I.A. Richards and Christine Gibson, who designed them to help the learner speak, read and write English in the quickest and clearest possible way - through pictures.  English Through Pictures can be used in many ways: as a self-teacher, a schoolbook, a blueprint or design for recordings, filmstrips, sound motion pictures and television. It is the purpose of this book to supply starting points from which people can go out in different directions as their different interests take them.