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English as She is Taught - Being Genuine Answers to Examination Questions in Our Public Schools
As the greatest compliment that could be paid a writer would be the assumption that the material contained in this little volume was the product of that writers ingenuity or imagination, it seems needless for the compiler to state that every line is just what it purports to be,bona fide answers to questions asked in the public schools. Mark Twain, with his inimitable drollery, viiicomments in the Century Magazine for April, 1887, upon English as She is Taught. Even this master of English humor acknowledges his inability to comprehend how such success in the literature of fun could be attained, not only without effort or intention, but through heroic struggles to set forth hard facts and sober statistics. That the English public may have the benefit of Mark Twains comments, his paper is, with his consent, here reprinted in its complete form. Although this involves a certain amount of repetitioncomment and illustration being too intricately blended to separateit is a repetition or rsum of the best things in the book, such as the wise reader will hardly grumble at. In the appendix to Crokers Boswells Johnson, one finds this anecdote: ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 61212
Author: Twain, Mark
Release Date: Jan 21, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English
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