Excerpt from First Lessons in Hand and Eye Training: Or Manual Work for Boys and Girls, With Illustrations Inserted in the Text, Arranged for Home and School<br><br>I commend my booklet to mothers, schoolmasters, and all who are concerned in the education of the young. It is intended for their guidance; their own judgment will enable them to select such parts of the matter as are suitable to the special gifts and dispositions of their pupils, to introduce changes and amplifications, and to foster in count less ways the inventive faculties and the energy of the little workmen whom it is their pleasant task to control.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.