Excerpt from A Practice-Book in English Composition Present day conditions seem to call for a very plain, practical text-book, brief, yet sufficiently varied in contents to provide both oral work and written work, home tasks and unprepared class room drill; a course so contrived that definite, de sirable results may be obtained without over burdening the teacher. 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.