Essential Steps in Reading and Speaking: For Teachers, Professional Speakers, Students, and Persons Seeking General Culture (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essential Steps in Reading and Speaking: For Teachers, Professional Speakers, Students, and Persons Seeking General Culture

While he fully believes the truth, Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh, he has prepared this volume with the hope that it will place the studies of Speaking and read ing on a more teachable foundation, and thus help many persons to further their efforts to improve themselves in speaking and reading and to become more potent and efficient in these greatest of all arts.

After deciding to undertake the work, it was found to be much more difficult than at first anticipated. And to carry out the preconceived plan it would be necessary in some places to blaze the way. On this account, more than eight years has the temple been in building'.

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