Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Wonder World, a Library of Knowledge, Vol. 7 of 10: Amateur Handicraft
This volume has been made to encourage boys and girls to work with their hands. Hand work yields something books alone can never give. What one gets from books is like a lot of checks, good at a certain bank, or in a certain banking system, but not real money. What one gets by experience, by seeing for one's self, doing for one's self, is like a bag of gold, good anywhere and always the round world over. No matter where a child lives, or how little he may have to start with, he can begin to gather tools and material of some sort, and to lay up within the gold of skill. He does not have to attempt great things, he has to do just the little things he wants to do most, but to do those things just as well as he can. Every attempt adds a grain of gold to his invisible pile; every success mints the gold into current coin. If health is the first wealth, then skill 13 the second wealth. In a book some two thousand years Old 18 a passage in praise of handicraft that every boy and girl should know. Put into words that children in this twentieth century can understand, it runs, thus. 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.
