Excerpt from The Higher Study of English The reader who takes up this little book should be warned that he must not expect a syste matic treatise. These four papers are of a strictly occasional nature, since even the second was writ ten in response to an invitation from the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and the subject of the fourth was suggested in the letter which requested me to deliver the address. Hence they are not mutually exclusive - indeed, the critical reader will discover that in some instances they overlap - though perhaps they may fairly be said to be mutually supplementary. Slight changes have been made in the text of the first and second papers, and the foot-notes to these are new. Of the Vassar address a portion is omitted at the beginning. In other respects the papers are re produced essentially without change. Albert S. Cook. 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.