Excerpt from Numbers Illustrated and Applied in Language, Drawing, and Reading Lessons: An Arithmetic for Primary Schools In the smaller illustrations, under the heading What can you tell the imagination is called into more active play, and the child is led to give more independent and original expression to the ideas gained from the pictures than the purpose of the foregoing exercises would permit, which was to follow out a logical and consistent plan of development. Here he is to find for himself the thread of the story hinted at in the picture, and weave it into a connected form for himself, the basis being the special combina tions suggested in the picture. 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.