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Excerpt from A First Book of Composition
Grateful acknowledgment is made for helpful suggestions from Mr. Allan Abbott, of the Horace Mann High School; Professor Franklin T. Baker, of Teachers College, Columbia University; Mrs. Fausta F. Barr, of the Mattoon, Illinois, High School; Mr. Samuel M. North, of the Baltimore Poly technic Institute; Mr. Edgar D. Randolph, of the Colorado State Teachers College; Mr. Benjamin A. Heydrick, High School of Commerce New York; and Professor James F. Royster, of the University of North Carolina. Acknowledgment is also due to the following publishers, who have very kindly permitted the use of copyright matter D. Appleton and Company, the Thomas Y. Crowell Company, the George H. Doran Company, Doubleday, Page and Com pany, D. C. Heath and Company, Henry Holt and Company, the John Lane Company, Little, Brown and Company, L. C. Page and Company, the Macmillan Company, and Thomas B. Mosher. The selections from Burroughs, Emerson, Fiske, Higginson, Holmes, Palmer, Robinson, and Whittier are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, the Houghton Mifflin Company. 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.
