The object of this book is to give to teachers a complete system of work, based upon purely educational principles, extending from the kindergarten through the high school; a system that has been tried with success in some of the best schools, and pronounced most excellent by leading educators of the country; a system, too, that the best educated mechanics consider sound and practical as well as progressive. Moreover, it is a system that will set teachers to thinking and inventing for themselves; and, while it will give them an opportunity to learn how to make correctly with tools the models preparatory to teaching, it will cause them to see the vital connection between the Manual Training and the other school work.

Moreover, it is a system that teaches the fundamental principles of of drawing, designing, and construction and also the correct use of all kinds of wood-working and forging tools.

The first exercises in this work are so simple that they can be performed by any child in the lowest primary classes, and are so graded in number, form and drawing as to meet successfully its intellectual growth from day to day.

The book is the outcome of many years experience in teaching and study with the foremost teachers in the United States and Europe; and its chief purpose is to show that Manual Training, in its best forms, can be introduced into the schools of every city, town, and village with success and at comparatively small expense.

The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. Geo. W. Whittemore, Assistant Master in the Waltham Manual Training School for valuable help in arranging the exercises and models in the forge shop.