[M] One of these children subsequently evinced much talent for the plastic art, which she traced back to this opportunity. She always kept it up, and gave fair promise of accomplishing something in this department of art.
[N] Several years after these letters were written, the Rev. Thomas Hill issued a series of cards containing geometrical figures composed of triangles of different sizes. They were very useful in aiding the development of the mathematical faculty in a private family, and might be used with advantage in the present Kindergarten-schools, whose success forever settles the question of the manner in which young children should be taught. The above letters exemplify the blind gropings of a true child-lover after that which has now been so beautifully developed by observation and genius united.
Transcriber's Notes:
In the text Froebel does not have a ligature, in the footnotes the ligature is present. This was retained.
[Page 86], two of the proofreaders caught amidst the mind-numbing word lists that "put" should not belong in the pattern of drunk, trunk, hunt, blunt... and should either go a few words before with cut, gut, hut, jut or be changed to "punt." The transcriber has chosen to change it to "punt."
[Page 88], in the list for W, "owner" occurred twice. Once after "growth" and once after "lower." The second instance was removed.
Song number VI, In bar 25, the first note (in both voices) has been corrected from a quarter note to an eighth note.
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
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