Excerpt from Fifty English Classics Briefly Outlined This book is the result of an experience as a teacher and principal extending over more than a score of years and covering every grade of school work from the un graded country school up to and through college pre paratory work. It is built upon a plan which the writer has found useful and contains the material which he has found it most essential to have before him in written or printed form. The plan is virtually that which is embodied in the writer's plan book entitled A Brief Outline of the Books I have Read, and is made up largely of matter which he has brought together for his own use. This will account for differences as to treatment and fullness which will be observed in the different outlines. It has seemed best to leave most of them in the form in which they have been found useful. Further, it has seemed wise to give as much variety of form to the different outlines as was consistent with the uniformity of plan upon which the outlines have been put together. Uni formity with variety is a good motto. 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.