A FIRST COURSE OF ESSAY

WRITING. Second Edition. Priée 6d.

The aim of this little book is to reduce the number of tho.se unpleasant and often unprofitable minutes which abeginner spends in contemplation of the "therne" that has been given him — minutes during which his mind is as blauk as the white sheet of paper he is expected to fill. It seeks to minimise thèse, not by supplying him with ideas — a process which would be easy enough, but not very helpf ul as a training — but by assisting him to iuterrogate his o wn consciousness. It tries to show him that he really does know something about the subject on which he has to write ; to suggest to him some points that he would do well to think about ; to suggest also an order in which the points may bc taken. — Préface.