Excerpt from Note-Taking If the regular work of a course does not supply suitable material for note-taking, it can easily be supplemented; in fact, the opportunity thus given to draw on material not directly connected with regular work is itself a privilege. Every alert teacher finds abundance of topics of local inter est, of large ethical significance, or of special importance politically and socially, by which he may stimulate the intellectual life of his students. He may use these topics for class talks or for assigned reports outside of class. If he prefers not to prepare original lectures, there are plenty of suitable addresses, articles, chapters, which he can use for reading aloud. For notes to be worked up outside of class there is admirable material in the current and bound numbers of such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, or the North American Review, or in certain books from the library, a list of which may easily be prepared. No one book yield's better results, as material for note-taking both in class and out, than does Bryce's American Commonwealth, owing no less to the intrinsic interest of the subject-matter than to the care with which its organization is made clear. 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.