Excerpt from The Well of English and the Bucket But skill in the use of practical written Eng lish, while it is so large a part of a journalistic equipment, belongs exclusively to no vocation or group of vocations. There is only one standard of good English. The fact that the terms newspaper English and college Eng lish have in the past meant definitely differ ent things seems to be an aspersion upon the college as well as upon the newspaper. If the appearance of textbooks on certain stand ardized, commercialized forms of expression will tend to continue the distinction between idealized and practicalized English, their pub lication is to be deplored. Let us hope it will be a force in the other direction, and that our schools and colleges are recognizing that they must teach an English which should be the best as well as the most effective medium of communication in the every-day social and commercial life of the communities around them. These collected essays are addressed to any one interested in the art of written expression. 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.