PREFACE This book provides an abundance of material for the first and the second year of any high school. Part One gives a good many subjects on which young pupils have successfully talked and written, and presents the first essentials of composition work, with emphasis on unity and coherence, —-whether of theme, paragraph, or sentence, — spelling, word formation, the use of the dictionary, and letter writing. Work on these essentials may be supplemented by such selections from Part Three as the teacher chooses to make, for example, from the chapter on Narration. The long chapter on Grammar, at the end of Part One, is so arranged and so placed that the more difficult portions may readily be postponed till the second year. Part Two offers more ambitious practice in the construction of the paragraph and the sentence, and requires the use of precise and forcible words. Part Three calls special attention to longer compositions and the four forms of prose. In each chapter the treatment is designed to meet the needs of the younger students. From the outset the book undertakes to emphasize the value of the study of composition by setting tasks that are obviously worth doing and by making requirements in sympathetic recognition of the pupil's immediate interests and the attitude of the normal youth toward equipping himself for the future. The large number of exercises allows the teacher unusual opportunity to give a class, a small group of pupils, or a single pupil the precise training needed, whether it be in choosing subjects, in constructing and correcting themes and paragraphs, in studying words, or in It will be noticed that the sentence wo the thorough drill (1) correct sentence dictation, or both; and (2) correct and i which the pupil is to pronounce judgme The specific directions for training work of others may, of course, be neg prefers; but the strong appeal they ma and the satisfaction with which teachers author's "English Composition," enco they will be widely and successfully em showing the student how to correct his No small share of the pleasure of w been due to the readiness with which e offered helpful suggestions; to the cord eration of Mr. Roy Davis of the Mechan Boston, in preparing many of the ex thoughtfulness and care with which the by Miss Elizabeth M. Richardson of the Boston, and Mr. Warren W. Read of School, New York City. The author acknowledges his indebt ing publishers for the use of copyrigh Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher thorne, Thoreau, Warner, Mr. John Bu Harris, and Professor Bliss Perry; to Th for selections from Lincoln, Dr. Charles yard Kipling, and Mr. Jacob A. Riis; to Macmillan Company for passages from and to Messrs. Charles Scribner's So Stevenson and Mr Thomas Nelson Pa |