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Excerpt from Standard Classics: With Biographical Sketches and Helpful Notes, Arranged and Edited for Use in the Higher Grades of the Common Schools In this book an attempt has been made to furnish at a low price and in handy form a carefully selected list Of those Standand American and English Classics which all students of Literature recognize as Masterpieces. Since the practice of a thorough study of a number of Classics in the higher grades of the. Common Schools has become so general, the demand for such a book has been more and more insistent from year to year. It is in answer to this demand that this book has been published. The Biographical Sketches are of necessity Short, and the aim has been to reveal character and life rather than to state a few bare facts. In the notes to these selections no attempt has been made at technical criticism, only such comments being given as will be directly explana tory and helpful to the pupil. 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.