Excerpt from The Historical Development of School Readers and Method Ln Teaching Reading I have seen no explanation of the discrepancy in the above dates. After a brief introduction, beginning with the following statement: Philipps Melanchthon desires the salvation of all children, follow the alphabet, large and small letters, the vocals, diphthongs, then the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, the Creed, Psalms xlvi., ii., viii., and the Ten Commandments. So far, the arrangement of the book is in the customary Catholic form. After this, however, almost the entire Ser mon on the Mount, John xiii., and Romans xii., are freely translated. Then there follow fourteen pages of secular material, namely, sayings of the wise men of Greece. Luther's child's little primer contained the Lord's Prayer, the Commandments, the Creed and the Catechism, after the fashion of the Catholic primers of the time. 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.