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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from School TrainingIf I have succeeded in making plain and interesting what is of. Supreme importance to every citizen I am more than satisfied, the smaller matters that worry us to-day will quickly assume their proper proportions, and will disappear in a genial contempt.I have to thank my friends Principal Salmon and Messrs. L. J. Roberts and H. T. Evans for help kindly given.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from The Democratic Ideal in EducationIN our land there is to-day considerable discussion upon educational matters. Appeals are made sometimes to our reason, and sometimes to our prejudices, and considerable bitterness of feeling is aroused and displayed, and generally much pother is created upon matters that are only incidentally educational. Let us trust that out of this evil good may come. Let us hope that what is at present an inte...

Excerpt from Two Chinese Poets: Vignettes of Han Life and ThoughtIn order to check on these various impressions I made a special study of Lu Chi's Wen F n (prose-poem on the Art of Letters) written in ad. 301-302. That study proved highly illuminating as to methods of approach to the classi cal literature: first, find a document of manageable propor tions, of certain authorship, certain date, and practically in dubitable text, and then follow ...

Excerpt from Schools at Home and AbroadThese essays and addresses on educational topics have been prepared at various times, and for varying audiences.Several of them were prepared for gatherings of. Primary teachers, others for gatherings of parents and persons interested in education. Some repetition and apparent diversity seem almost inevitable in a collection of essays written under these circumstances. Yet the writer thinks that, beneath ...

Excerpt from Problems of American DemocracyThe last opportunity that millions of our citizens will ever have to consider some of these problems in a formal way is in the secondary school. Here education for the many ceases. And even for the smaller number who go to college it is well that at the age when they begin to form positive Opinions a definite opportunity should be afforded to con sider the great questions of society, industry, and gov...

Excerpt from Hughes' Decimal Tables: Simple and Compound Interest, Exchange, Sterling £s. D. Into Canadian Currency and United States $c. And the Reverse, Valuation of Stocks, Shares, Debentures, EtcThe answers so far as figures are concerned, whether relating to dollars and cents, francs and centimes, or any other Decimal Currency, being alike, that is to say, interest on for 9 days 95 days=305.26 and 953 days=3200.58.About the PublisherForgo...

Excerpt from Census of India, 1901: Volume V-B, Baluchistan, Part III, Provincial TablesAs with Provincial Table No. 2 different type has been used in the case of the race, the tribe and each of its sub divisions.Table No. 5.-this Table is subsidiary to Imperial Table No. XV. Part A contains {or Administered Districts the amalgamated figures of Parts 2 and 3 of Imperial Table No. XV, and shows, therefore, the District totals. Part B shows occu...

Excerpt from Census of India, 1901: Volume V-B, Baluchistan, Part III, Provincial TablesAs with Provincial Table No. 2 different type has been used in the case of the race, the tribe and each of its sub divisions.Table No. 5.-this Table is subsidiary to Imperial Table No. XV. Part A contains {or Administered Districts the amalgamated figures of Parts 2 and 3 of Imperial Table No. XV, and shows, therefore, the District totals. Part B shows occu...

Excerpt from Community CivicsThe boys and girls of our schools constitute the source from Which a thinking citizenship of this kind must be developed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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...

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The papyri published here, chiefly in the collection of the Oriental Institute Museum, comprise part of a large family archive from the town of Hawara in the Egyptian Fayum. Written in Demotic and Greek, the documents (annuity contracts, donations, sales, mortgage agreements, loan repayments) are an excellent source of information about the Egypt of the fourth to third century b.c. Professor George R. Hughes had worked on the ten Oriental Inst...