Excerpt from A Practical Hand-Book of Games This book is planned primarily for the use of teachers and game leaders, and the games are discussed from pedagogical and psychological standpoints. Only games which have been actually taught by the writer are described, and their chief advantages or possible limitations and disadvantages are emphasized. Representative games for each age are given, but not more than one or two of a type, because experience teaches that children thoroughly enjoy games which they know well and like, and prefer to play these again and again rather than to be learning new ones constantly. This lessens the problem of the young teacher, as it is unnecessary for her to be familiar with more than a comparatively small number of games of representative types which can always be available. It has been the experience of the writer that many of the games described in various books do not meet with universal approval on the part of children, because the end and aim are not what they desire. 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.