EXERCISES

FOR

THE SENSES;

FOR

YOUNG CHILDREN.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF 'ARITHMETIC FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.'

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1885.

INTRODUCTION.

THESE Exercises have been prepared for the pur pose of providing instruction and amusement for children who are too young to learn to read and write. Their special object is to excite little children to examine surrounding objects correctly, so that valuable knowledge may be acquired, while the attention, memory, judgment, and invention are duty exercised.

It has been generally adopted as a principle in education, that young children possess scarcely any faculty but memory; and that the memory must be cultivated until the other faculties make their ap pearance. It is true that children possess less intellectual power than adults; but it is a mistake to suppose that their faculties differ from those of their seniors in any respect but in degree, or that the infantile powers are to he strengthened by neglect. It is better, no doubt, to let the young chiid take its cnance, and teach it nothing, rather than teach it ill ;