A MANUAL OF ESSAY WBITING

FOK HIGHER FORMS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS

By J. H. FOWLER, M.A.

ASSISTANT-MASTER AT CLIFTON COLLEGE ; EDITOR OF " NINETEENTH CENTDRY PROSE," ETC.

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"Mr. J. H. Fowler's Essay- Writing may be unreservedly recommendcd for the higher forais in public scbools, and for teacliers of composition of ail grades. The author's aima are high, lus method of handling bis subject is dignified as well as practical, and his book offers in itself an excellent example of that clearness of thought, sobriety of judgment, and purity of style which he wishes to aid his readers to attain. The duties of a composition master are not — according to Mr. Fowler's conception of them — limited to the development in his pupils of a certain facility for spiuning out a meagre stock of ideas in language grammatically correct, and possessing a certain shallow fluency and sparkle ; his aim should be to make the writing of an essay an occasion for the acquisition of ideas, the widening of knowledge, the cultivation of habits of research, and the exercise of individual thought and critical judgment. The earnestness and skill with which Mr. Fonder develops this idea constitute the chief claim ofhis work to considération, and raise it head and shoulders above any other text-book on composition which we hâve seen." — Guardian.

By the sanie Author.