Things which have been found have a history of their own, which gives them precedence over what comes from a shop; but the highest value of all belongs to the things which children have made entirely themselves--bows and arrows, catapults, clay marbles, though imperfectly round, home-made boats and kites.

The play-value grows in direct proportion to the amount of personal share which children have in the making and in the use of their playthings.

And in this we ought cordially to agree with them.
After the nursery age, in the school or school-room, play divides into two lines--organized games, of which we hear a great deal in school at present, and home play.

They are not at all the same thing.

Both have something in their favour.