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Excerpt from The Origin of the Historical Present in English: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of English)
I Wish to express my thanks to the friends who aided me in pre paring and revising this work. My thanks are due to Drs. J. R. Hulbert, T. A. Knott, and J. M. Manly, of the University of Chicago, to Dr. J. F. Royster, of the University of Texas, and to Dr. E. A. Greenlaw, of the University of North Carolina, for valuable sug gestions and kindly criticisms; and to Miss Marion Reynolds, Of the University of Chicago Libraries, for her assistance in putting at my disposal the books used in the preparation of this paper. 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.
