Excerpt from Bringing Up the Boy: A Message to Fathers and Mothers From a Boy of Yesterday Concerning the Men of to-Morrow<br><br>A good portion of the material in this volume was printed in serial form in The Delineator, to whose editors and publish ers I am deeply indebted for the sympathy and encouragement that were necessary to bring my ideas on boy training into the circle of general parenthood. As a result of the publicity gained through the medium of that magazine's wide circulation, many letters were received by the magazine and by myself; and in this mass of correspond ence there was a distinct note of appeal for the publication of the essays between covers. It was quite without any knowl edge of this demand, however, that the present publishers, acting independently, became interested in the series. And de cided, after due consideration, to issue it in book form.<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.