Lanterna Rally

Author: Frederick Houk Law

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781330523162

Excerpt from English for Immediate Use Most pupils have not the faintest wish to cultivate literary style, or to become writers of books. The great majority of pupils in secondary schools will not even enter college: they will go out at once into the work of the world. Most pupils say frankly that they do not intend to give their days and nights to the study of Addison, and that they would not write like Addison, if they could. They do wish earnestly to make themselves understood, and they would like to talk and to write in a way that commands attention. They have no desire to master periodic structure; they care nothing for balance and antithesis as methods of expression. All that they wish is to make instant appeal to their fellows. It is to aid them in fulfilling the ordinary daily needs and desires that this book has been written. For all pupils in American schools English is the principal medium of self-expression. Through that medium, every day, they reveal their needs, their desires, their emotions, and all of their numerous reactions in life. They live in the days when they speak and write: they are not waiting to live in some far-off future. 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.