FOREWORD
EXERCISES
PRÉCIS WRITING
What Précis Means
The Object of these Exercises
How to tackle a Précis
“Reported Speech”
No. 1.—Exercises in “Reported Speech”
Notes
No. 2.—George Oakes
No. 3.—The Cobra
No. 4.—The Two Lieutenants
No. 5.—The Black Republic
No. 6.—The Professor and the Monkeys
No. 7.—The Island
No. 8.—A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial
No. 9.—The Miser
No. 10.—The Boy Scouts
No. 11.—Child Labourers in 1836
No. 12.—The Museum, 300 B.C.
No. 13.—The Warning
No. 14.—Science as taught in our Great-grandfathers’ School-days
No. 15—The Hut-Tax
No. 16.—The Mandarin
No. 17—Isaac Newton
No. 18.—The Battle of the Nile
