Excerpt from First Manual of Composition: Designed for Use in the Highest Grammar Grade and the Lower High School Grades Two years ago the writer published a small volume called "A First Book in Writing English." He did so on the hypothesis that all the rhetorical theory necessary for college entrance may best be given in simple form to students in the first two years of the high school, in order that it may later be assimilated by practice. After watching the book in use by pupils of very different ages, he believes the hypothesis to be essentially correct. The chief principles of rhetoric can be grasped very early, but only long practice can transform them into a workman's instincts. He has now attempted to apply the principle a little lower down; to connect grammatical with rhetorical study in the eighth and ninth grades; to present sentence-analysis as a means of naming and revising what the pupil himself has instinctively written; and to arouse a desire of reasoning soundly about matters interesting to the reasoner. 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.