Excerpt from Graded Selections for Memorizing: Adapted for Use at Home and in School For children from six to thirteen years of age, the selections are graded. Each year's work contains about three hundred and twenty lines, or eight lines per week. The greater part of the selections for younger children consists of entire pieces, and of such as are calculated to develop their emotional nature, - the imagination, the love of home and parents, kindness to animals, etc. - and to give them correct rules of action. 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.