Excerpt from Story Composition As an exercise in school composition, the value of story writing has never been appreciated. Not only does it call forth the most varied possible use of the English language and teach ¿exibility and command of expression, but it stimulates close observation and furnishes the only practi cable opportunity for the study and discussion of human motives and passions - indeed, the Whole of the emotional side of life. Human emotion, though one of the most deeply interesting and important topics of human thought, is too delicate and too complicated for any systematic study in schools; but story-writing, treated primarily as the best possible exercise in English composition, gives an incidental Opportunity for a vast amount of extremely fascinating and useful instruction regarding emotion on the part of the teacher. 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.