Excerpt from A Manual of Civics for New York Schools It is now a quarter of a century since I first published N ortham's Civil Government, the early editions of which bore upon the title-page the words for common schools the distinc tion of the book. Civil government had been hitherto a high school study, ranked in common estimation in the group with logic and mental and moral philosophy. The book was a great as sistance to the movement that began about that time'to introduce the subject lower down, espe cially in the 8th and 9th grades. The success of the book may be judged from the fact that it has passed through 177 6611131015123; and' that 011157: last October copies were oxdexed) for a slngle institution, the New York Qty N'ei'mal college. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.