Excerpt from Old and New: Sundry Papers Although the following essays and addresses form rather a miscellaneous lot, they have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, es pecially in matters of speech and of school. Four of the papers have already appeared in print The Dark Ages, Fashion and the Broad A, Numeric Reform in Nescioubia, Is Modern Language Teach ing a Failure For permission to republish these I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness respectively to the Secretary of the Modern Language Association of America, the Editor of The Nation, the Secretary of the Simplified Spelling Board of New York, and the. 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.