Expression in Speech and Writing

This small volume has a chapter on Oral Composition, one on Written Composition, and one on Verse Making, on Original Music, on the Rendering of Poetry. It closes with an appendix on the Expression of Arithmetical reasoning. The chapter on Oral Composition opens by calling attention to the difference in the present day attitude towards children. When the writer and many others of us who can remember, were young, the favorite maxim was that little children should be seen and not heard. The s...