Excerpt from A Boy's Control and Self-Expression: Illustrated With About 250 Figs It is supposed that a book should keep within reach, or at least within sight, of a single point, as anyone walking round St. Mary's of the Scilly Isles usually keeps within sight of the simple-looking Marconi Station. My book usually keeps within sight of a single idea, which I will express in a somewhat long sentence. Fairly considering all that I know now, what training of body and mind should I choose if I were allowed to become a boy again, and if I wanted to prevent the most serious mistakes as easily as possible and with as little attention to them as possible, so as to avoid morbidness or crankiness or priggishness? I must have read quite a hundred and fifty books and papers on the subject of purity for boys, but not one of them answered my question. Almost every one-there were, of course, some exceptions - brought before me a picture of an immaculate perfection, clothed in black, standing on an inaccessible platform of genteel propriety, and, as a rule, hopelessly out of touch with the real boy, as we see him in life and in such books as "The Golden Age," "The Human Boy," "Stalky and Co.," and "Vice-Versa." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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