It permits the attention to be given to the hands in practice, and
not to the pages.

In schools it will secure uniformity in the instruction given.

It furnishes the bases for oral recitations and examinations as in
other subjects.

It is logical, systematic, thorough.

It is a book for use by schools, teachers, and students.




NOTES:

1: From the "Table Talk."

2: Play to the children Schubert's song entitled "The Organ-man."

3: Phillips Brooks says in one of his sermons ("Identity and
Variety"): "Every act has its perfect and entire way of being
done."

4: Bohn edition, p. 35.

5: Read to the children such parts of Francesca Alexander's "Christ's
folk in the Apennine" as seem to you pertinent.