Excerpt from The Right Reading for Children: In the School the Home and the Library This danger these tales tend to prevent. They widen out the child's consciousness from self to those about him, from the local to the national, and from the national to all mankind; they lead him into sympathy with that childlike spirit which was a characteristic of the childhood of the race; they are a sure means of creating ethical judgment and religious feeling in the simplest relationships within the child's sphere of apperception. 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.