Excerpt from A First Manual of Composition (Revised) This edition is a revised and rearranged version. The arrangement of the former book was adapted to the theory that the student should be led to find all his own mistakes. There can be little doubt that a student should learn to be his own critic, but experience shows that he must have more aid in the first year of the high school than he was allowed in the original plan of this book. The directions for revising themes are therefore much modified, the study of punctuation is massed, and a considerable number of exercises is added to each chapter. 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.