A FIRST COURSE OF ESSAY

WRITING. Second Edition. Price 6d.

The aim of this little book is to reduce the number of those unplcasant and often unprofitable minutes whicb abeginner spends in contemplation of the "thème" that bas been given bim — minutes during whicb his mind is as blank as the wbite sheet of paper he is expectcd to fill. It seeks to minimise thèse, not by supplying him with ideas — a process whicb would be easy enough, but not very helpful as a training— but by assisting him to inteiTogate his own con.'sciousness. It tries to show bim that he really does k:iow soraetbing about tbe subjeet ou wbich he bas to write ; to suggest to him some points that he would do wcll to think about ; to suggest aiBo an order in wbich the points may bc taken. — Pyjac.