SERIES OF TEXT-BOOKS ON ENGLISH. BY PROFESSOR G. R. CARPENTER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR. For Use in Secondary Schools. ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COM POSITION. First High School Course. ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION. Second High School Course. In preparation. EXERCISES IN RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COM POSITION. ADVANCED COURSE. For Use in Academies and Colleges. STUDIES IN STRUCTURE AND STYLE. To sup For plement the preceding. By W. T. BREWSTER. Use in Academies and Colleges. With an Introduction by G. R. CARPENTER. AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION FIRST HIGH SCHOOL COURSE BY George Bice G. R. CARPENTER PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1899 All rights reserved исти Educ T768.99,262 26 March, 1900 Harvard University, Child Memorial Library, Prof. Barrett Hendrie HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE THIS Volume is based on my Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (high school course), first published in 1891, which, after passing through six editions, is now withdrawn from circulation. In revising, expanding, and perfecting my earlier work, I have been gratified to observe how much progress has been made during this decade in the teaching of rhetoric and English composition in the secondary schools. In 1890 no one felt sure what rhetorical theories should be put before high school students, what practice should be given them in composition, or what relation the combined work in rhetoric and composition should bear to the study of English literature. The problem last mentioned has not yet been solved satisfactorily. That we have come to a fairly definite agreement as to the other two problems is due to the zeal with which teachers of English are carrying on their work, solving their difficulties by experience, and to the animated and effective discussion, throughout the country, of the recommendations of the Committees of Ten and Fifteen and the Conference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in English. What teachers seem to have agreed on in regard to the teaching of rhetoric and composition is largely this: - V |