Excerpt from The Classics and Modern Training: A Series of Addresses Suggestive of the Value of Classical Studies to Education Among the books to which I am indebted for information and suggestion are: the works of John Addington Symonds; Mr. W. L. Courtney's little treatise entitled T/ze Idea of Tragedy; the small volume on T/ie Greek Drama, by Mr. Lionel D. Barnett; T/ze Poetics of Aristotle (edited by Professor Butcher); and The Meaning of History, by Mr. Frederic Harrison. 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.