English Composition (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from English Composition<br><br>For permission to use copyrighted material in this book grateful acknowledgments are due McClure, Phillips, & Company for part of a story, The Play's the Thing, from George Madden Martin's Emmy Lou; Longmans, Green, & Company for a sketch of Charles Lever from Andrew Lang's Essays in Little; the Century Company for short passages from each of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books; President Charles William Eliot and Houghton, Mifflin, & Company for a description (with diagram) of Gore Place, Waltham, from Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect; Houghton, Mifflin, & Company also for a description of the Cathedral of Chartres from Henry James's Portraits of Places; Professor George Francis Atkinson and Henry Holt & Company for a piece of exposition (with cut) from Studies of American Fungi; and the Macmillan Company for several pages (with cut) from Alfred Russel Wallace's Darwinism. For other illustrative matter I am indebted to many former pupils, particularly James Harper Chase and Mrs. George Albert Goulding.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.