Excerpt from Guide Right: Ethics for Young People Children love stories. They love to read about children who think and act as they themselves might think and act; and the stories they read should give them noble and sensible views of life. In the stories of this book, I have sought to present the principles which underlie right ac tions, in such plain and simple form as to be easily understood by young children. I have endeavored thus to prepare them to fight the bat tle with evil which they must fight, if they are to become true men and women. This book was written, primarily, for use in the schoolroom, and is especially adapted to such use. The teachers who use the book, should do more than simply allow the children to read thestories. Each story, after being read, should be discussed. The teacher, by careful questioning, should lead the children to see the truth taught. This will require preparation on the part of the teacher, as in the discussion of moral questions she must be sure of her ground. Our public schools have often been condemned for doing so little toward character building. There should be no ground for such complaint. The teacher who seeks to train the bodies and minds of her pupils, without striving also to train their souls, can never know the joy she should know in her work. Soul cultivation is a work of most absorbing interest. It is the earnest wish of the author of this book that it may be of use to her fellow-workers, in their efforts to teach the children to see the beauty of goodness and to make their own lives good and true. Emma L. Ballou. 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.