This book is intended to serve two specific purposes. First: By short simple finger drills the pupil quickly develops keyboard freedom, accuracy, rapidity, strength and control. Second: Presented in the most condensed form, allproblems of phrasing and hand control usually so marked in pieces of first and second grade music, have been briefly taken up one at a time and with the least possible distraction. The progress is gradual, systematic and thorough,and each piece is handsomely illustrated in...