By Ways Of Literature Or Essays On Old Things And New In The Customs Education Character Literature And Language Of The English Speaking People

Excerpt from By-Ways of Literature, or Essays on Old Things and New, in the Customs, Education Character Literature, and Language of the English-Speaking People I have called this book BY - ways or literature, partly because I Wished a modest title, partly because, though the territory rambled over is cut by highways, I have not kept to the great roads, but wandered across the country searching sometimes for instruction in the old, oftener for light on the new. Portions of some of these essays have appeared in periodicals, but they have been conscientiously re-written. Our Spoken English, originally printed in the Meth'odist Qua/rterly Review, is least changed for this book, but the opinions expressed in it have been modified and the discussion considerably enlarged. 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.