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Excerpt from Educational Value of the Children's Playgrounds: A Novel Plan of Character Building This little book was written for the purpose of answering a'pressing need for a better understanding of the value and possibilities of Children's Playgrounds. During the four years of his connection with an association interested in the establishment of Playgrounds, the writer has been impressed with the fact that the scope of the movement is very inadequately understood, even by some of its warm advo cates. On the other hand, the literature devoted to the Playgrounds idea, consisting almost exclusively of some articles in the periodical reviews and the daily papers, has treated them from a rather one-sided point of view, thus having failed to do them justice. Should this treatise effect a larger appreciation of the importance of the Playgrounds and a clearer understanding of the best methods of con ducting them, it will be sufficient reward for the labor involved. The writer will welcome every sincere and intelligent criticism as co-operation in enlightening public sentiment on this momentous, but seriously neglected. 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.