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Excerpt from The Redemption of Arthur True: A Rural School Story The stories and semi-stories, good and indifferently good, which treat of some phase of the rural school problem, are numerous - rather too numerous, perhaps. But the last line has not been written upon the important subject of country school conditions; and, so long as vigorous English, either spoken or written, can be of any use in behalf of improved educational facilities for country boys and girls, may the last line never come until the blessed millennium has arrived! The little volume which Mr. Bratten issues under the title, "The Redemption of Arthur True," is a distinct and important contribution to pedagogical fiction. Under the guise of entertaining narrative, as has been the wont of so many who have had great messages to convey, Mr. Bratten makes an eloquent appeal for better rural schools. The simple, accurate, and particularly vivid picture of school conditions in Illinois as the author has observed them is not so much a matter of fiction as it is actual history, and very modern history, too. The imagination has not been severely taxed to furnish all the materials of a story well calculated to hold the interest. No one who is at all familiar with rural school needs as they exist in most localities of Southern Illinois can doubt, even momentarily, that Mr. Bratten's story is true to life in every detail. 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.