Excerpt from Sentence and Theme: Composition for the First Year of High SchoolTrue practice is not furnished by a mere pile of illustra tions from literature. If exercises are to be assimilated and become mental tissue, they must be offered as real daily food. Only the power of divination could conceive what poetical and oratorical extracts have seemed like to literal-minded boys - perhaps like a clouded Sinai of awesome mystery, perhaps like a cemetery of paradigms. Exercises should be brought down to earth and kept above ground should be made - and should appear to the pupil to be - daily food for daily needs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.