Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Guide to the Local History of Brookline, Mass The following Guide to the Study of Brookline History was originally undertaken by the History Committee of the Education Society in response to a request from the teachers of the third primary grade. As the work developed, however, the attempt to limit its scope to the needs of any particular grade was abandoned, and the resolution formed to make it simply a suggestive outline and bibliography which, on the one hand, might serve as a basis of study for all grades, from the primary to the high school, while on the other hand, it depended for its value chiefly upon the ability of the teacher to expand it and to adapt it to the needs of her particular pupils. 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.