Excerpt from Choice Selections: Being About Six Hundred Extracts From More Than Two Hundred Different Authors; Designed for Lessons in Recitation, Reading, Morals, and Literature This volume, with a few changes and additions, was originally published in two separate parts, but, with the impression that a combination of the two Will prove more acceptable, they are so presented in this issue. The book contains about six hundred selections, from more than two hundred different authors, and each selection contains a thought worthy the attention of youth. A lady of highly successful and varied experience in school work, having used part I, writes I am glad to tell you what a help 'memory Gems have been to me. I have used them for lessons in Gram mar, Spelling, Memory, Literature, etc. My pupils are always greatly interested in them, and I wish every teacher might enjoy the satisfaction and profit I have received from their use. 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.