Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The University of Chicago Magazine, Vol. 1: May, 1909
Now it is certainly well that as a student reads, he should not sup pose kerns and gallowglasses were the names of a kind of officers in the army. But the teacher may inform him in passing; and it is far more desirable surely that he should allow kerns and gallow glasses and their like to drop out of his memory altogether than that he should, by being made to look them up for himself, be led to the conclusion that Shakspere's magnificent rattling melodrama of Macbeth is merely a disciplinary exercise in strange words and difficult constructions. How English literature should be taught may be found stated concisely in the preface to Professor Manly's col lection of English poetry. That it may soon be universally taught in the fashion there suggested, let us hope. 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.
