A Graduated Course of Simple Manual Training Exercises for Educating the Hand and Eye, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: W. Hewitt
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365459118
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Excerpt from A Graduated Course of Simple Manual Training Exercises for Educating the Hand and Eye, Vol. 2 The present volume contains the second part of a course of simple Manual Training Exercises, drawn up at the request of the Liverpool School Board, and introduced into nearly all their schools. A previous volume (part I.) contained a First and Second Series of exercises, intended for children of from seven to nine years of age (s dards I. And IL); while the present part contains the Thir and Fourth Series of the course, intended for children from nine to eleven years of age (standards III. And who have worked through one or both of the preceding series. The general principles upon which the course has been drawn up were explained in the Introduction to Part I., and it does not appear necessary to state them again here. The exercises in the First and Second Series were d signed to lead up to those m the later set-es, whirl: are drawn up on similar lines, but require somewhat more ski'l and patience on the part of the children. The exercises have again been largely based upon the course of drawing taken by the same standards in the schools, and the two subjects will be found to mutually assist each other. In the Fourth Series especially it is intended that each exercise shall be drawn on paper accurately to scale, and the form or model then constructed to the same scale in wire or cardboard. 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.