Excerpt from Play, Its Value and Fifty Games This little volume with its message to the mothers, the teachers and the boys and girls is not a scientific discussion, not a classroom text-book, but a very plain and simple telling of some truths which seem very live ones to me after ten years of happy work with the boys and girls in the country places, the villages and the cities of these United States. I am not dealing with the child through all the stages of development from infancy to adolescence, but with the boys and girls who have left the kindergarten far behind and who so many times, through lack of proper direction, have also left those wonderful and beautiful principles and ideals through which the play of the older boys and girls, indeed the play of the men and women, could be directed, enriched and developed. 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.