Excerpt from A Ladder to Learning for Little Climbers: Showing How Play and Study May Be Combined Though it hasrbeen wisely declared that of the making of books there is no end, yet it may still be found that there is room for one, with some novel and attractive features, prepared exclusively on the learn ing-made-easy plan, and intended to facilitate the child's progress in those branches where the memory is especially taxed. It must not be made an objection to this effort, that a little learning is a dangerous thing, because all acquisitions of knowledge are necessarily small at the beginning. There is more poetry than truth in the line; for learning of the right kind, little though it be, if well fixed in the memory, will be found not only convenient, but per manently useful. Not that the outlines of study herein contained should be considered enough, but that they may serve to interest the learner in what is before him, as well as to sharpen his appetite for more. As a child is taught the multiplication table. 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.