He has endeavored thus to destroy the personality of the narratives without injuring or altering their moral effect.
From the very nature of our employment, and of the circumstances under which the preparation for it must be made, it is plain that, of the many thousands who are in the United States annually entering the work, a very large majority must depend for all their knowledge of the art, except what they acquire from their own observation and experience, on what they can obtain from books.

It is desirable that the class of works from which such knowledge can be obtained should be increased.

Some excellent and highly useful specimens have already appeared, and very many more would be eagerly read by teachers, if properly prepared.

It is essential, however, that they should be written by experienced teachers, who have for some years been actively engaged and specially interested in the work; that they should be written in a very practical and familiar style, and that they should exhibit principles which are unquestionably true, and generally admitted by good teachers, and not the new theories peculiar to the writer himself.

In a word, utility and practical effect should be the only aim.
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