This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE I Nothing short of an imperative sense of duty could tempt me to set forth on that most perilous emprise, a discussion of the American language. The path is beset with man-traps and spring-guns. Not all the serious causes of dissension between England and America have begotten half the bad blood that has been engendered by trumpery questions of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. I cannot hope to escape giving offence, probably on both sides; but if I can induce one or two people on either side to think twice before they scoff once, I shall not have written in vain. In the way of scoffing, we English have doubtless (and inevitably) been the worst offenders. We have habitually used "Americanism " as a term of reproach, implying, if not saying in so many words, that America was the great source of pollution, and of nothing but pollution, to the otherwise limpid current of our speech. Dean Alford wrote offensively to this effect; Archbishop Trench, on the other hand, discussed the relations between the English of America and the English of England with courtesy and good sense. (See English Past and Present, ninth edition, pp. 63, 215.) He protested against certain transatlantic neologisms, including in his list that excellent old word "to berate," and a word so useful and so eminently consonant with the spirit of the language as "to belittle"; but, whether wise or unwise, his protest was at least civil. Other writers, both in books and periodicals, have been apt to take their tone from the Dean rather than from the Archbishop. It may even be said that the instinct of the majority of Englishmen, which finds heedless expression in the newspapers and common talk, is to regard Americanisms as necessarily vulgar, and (conversely) vulgarisms as ...

America today; observations and reflections (Foreign travelers in America)

History

Archer, William

Americas

Arno Press

Knowledge and Character bound with The Modern Teacher(RLE Edu K)

Written before, but published after The First World War, this volume’s plea for a national system of education which will produce a nation of prosperous, morally fulfilled people able to live at peace with other nations is doubly poignant given the sacrifice of the ‘lost generation’. However, the author also sees the horror of the War as an opportunity to change human destiny through education, an opportunity to abandon the narrow system of education in favour of one which will ‘bring education in touch with life’ and provide Britain with the intellectual and moral efficiency necessary to steer her through the following turbulent years of the twentieth century.  Covering the core subjects of the English school curriculum in the early twentieth century the chapters in The Modern Teacher, if somewhat utopian, describe best practice in teaching of the particular subject and suggest possible improvements. One chapter also discusses the importance of the relatively new subject of citizenship, as well as the moral education of pupils.

Reference

Routledge

The Peace-president, a Brief Appreciation

Wentworth Press

The League of Youth

GOSSE, EDMUND

Through Afro-America: An English Reading of the Race Problem

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Through Afro-America: An English Reading Of The Race Problem

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Pub

God And Mr. Wells: A Critical Examination Of God The Invisible King (1917)

Religion & Spirituality

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Through Afro-America;: An English reading of the race problem

Negro Universities Press

Hazlitt on Theatre: Selections from the View of the English Stage and Criticisms and Dramatic Essays

Arts & Photography

HAZLITT, WILLIAM

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Hyperion Pr

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