Excerpt from A College Course in Writing From Models: Arranged, With Introduction and Notes The present volume of prose selections urges, as its best excuse for being, the conviction of the editor that it is founded on a principle psychologically and pedagogically sound. Although this principle, in the abstract, has been recognized by teachers, and although it has been delight fully expounded and advocated by Robert Louis Stevenson. It has not, so far as I am aware, had a sufficiently wide nor definite application to the study of writing among undergraduates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.