Kahnuanés, the Polytechnic, arent Birert Tendon. "Lanamans' Green, London. "Langman Green, This tittle volume wil prove useful for supplementary drill in class teaching or as a basis for private tuition: Us'aim ix to promote Mueney and accuracy in modern spoken English: there is a minimum of grammatical terminology and a welcome absence of archaism. TU ie desiined for students who already possess a work Ing knowledge of the language, but requires the guidance of a rellable JJeacher as it provides no adequate check on mistakes. Ths chief value lies inthe fact that it provides a series of ready-made examples of the kind that teachers are alway's Mise Judd hag obviously hid con= siderable experience with "foreign students the particular difficulties with which they are faced, stich as the tenses and principal parts verbs, the negative, prepositions, and words like "since", "ago", "say" and "tell". However," her book is Rot free from the faults of so many of the textbooks published on. this subject. "It seems lo follow no really scientific plan of linguistic teaching. Students who work from it are likely to be irritated by the inclusion of those niggardly little points which a teacher, embedded in the rut of his own system, emphasizes urineeest ly." Tig definitions, where any. are given, are not always correct. By ts Success and Its shortcomings, this ook should be an indication to high educational authority that the pub: ication of a dependable manual on English for foreigners is long over-and the good a life's Labour has brought him. "This - autoblographiy forcibly recalls Longfellow's. village Diaeksmith and the words "something attempted, something. done."—1.0.
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