Excerpt from English Composition, Vol. 2 English composition, Book Two, completes the work oegun in the first two years of the high school by treat ing the four forms of discourse, as well as Grammar and Diction, from the more advanced point of view of the third and fourth years. It furthermore presents work on the Drama, the Novel, the Short Story, the Essay, and Poetry, designed mainly to cultivate a discriminating appreciation of these forms of literature. 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.