Excerpt from Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram Garfield and Chester Alan Arthur Mr. Sherman Finch, a practising lawyer of Delaware, had been a tutor in Yale College, and was well qualified to give Rutherford his introduction to Latin and after wards to Greek. The home readings with Fanny and his mother at this time included Hume's and Smollett's histories of England and other standard works, and the poems of Scott and Moore. The days of the modern novel, of the fiction weekly and the magazine, had not yet come, but Shakespeare was permitted, although the rehgious circle to which the family belonged was un alterably opposed to theatrical performances. Dramatic tastes were awakened, nevertheless; and the boy and girl students of the great master proceeded to the some what remarkable performance of dramatizing Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. 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.