Classical English Reader: Selections From Standard Authors; With Explanatory and Critical Foot-Notes

Excerpt from Classical English Reader: Selections From Standard Authors; With Explanatory and Critical Foot-NotesAs a general rule, it is, I think, hardly right or expedient to draw much on living authors for the use here designed. To form the minds and tastes of the young, nothing should be served up or recommended, short of the best there is to be had. Surely, at all events, boys and girls ought not to be fed from authors who will have passed into oblivion by the time they shall have grown to be men and women.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.