COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition PREFACE A TEXTBOOK in composition should include those principles of rhetoric, grammar, and mechanics which will be immediately useful to the pupils who are to use it—all of these principles and no others. Accordingly, the authors of English in Service have carefully reviewed their own teaching experience and studied the various reports on "essentials" to determine just what technical instruction pupils in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades find profitable. The plan of revealing to the pupils their need of each principle before asking them to learn it has acted as a further check upon the selection of such material. It may be confidently asserted that nothing of major importance has been omitted and that the body of technical information presented is all valuable to the children who will study the book and is as extensive as they will have time really to master. A textbook should harmonize with the best methods of teaching. The authors of English in Service take it for granted that 1. Pupils learn best when they are most interested; They are most interested when they are attempting to realize purposes of their own; 2. |