Excerpt from Stories of Famous Pictures Almost all his pictures are of chil dren, so that in Germany he has been called kinder-meyer, but his real name was Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen. When he was a little boy he was always drawing tiny pictures. He determined to go to an art school. In a few years he passed through all the classes with honor. His motto was: Make the best of your time; it never returns. 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.