Tales From Scottish History: In Prose and Verse; Selected From the Works of Standard Authors. E-book. Formato PDF William J. Rolfe   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

How I think the books should be used is explained in a little pamphlet of Hints to Teachers, which may be obtained, post free, from the publishers. The selections are arranged in historical or chronological order, and the book is complete in itself, as every volume of the series is intended to be.

Tales of Chivalry: And the Olden Time, Selected From the Works of Sir Walter Scott. E-book. Formato PDF William J. Rolfe   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The series of which this is the initial volume was planned more than six years ago, and three years have passed since the plan was approved by the publishers but its execution has been delayed by work upon other books. My aim is to edit certain selections from standard prose and poetry suited either for supplementary read ing, as it is called, or for elementary study in English literature. The brief foot-notes under the text are perhaps all that some teach ers will regard as necessary for the former purpose; but I believe that the longer notes at the end of the book will be found more or less useful and suggestive for oral instruction in connection with the reading-lessons. These latter notes, however, are more especially designed for the other purpose I have mentioned — elementary study of language and literature. They have been prepared with much care, and I am confident that they will be perfectly intelligible to boys and girls in grammar schools and others of similar grade. I shall not attempt here to explain how I think they should be used, as the little pamphlet of Hints to Teachers, which may be oh tained, post-free, on application to the publishers, will give my views more in detail than would be possible in a preface. Suffice it to say now, to forestall possible criticism, that these notes are not designed to give systematic instruction in either grammar or rhetoric.

Shakespeare's Tragedy of Coriolanus. E-book. Formato PDF William J. Rolfe   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This play, which I first edited in 1881, has now been very thoroughly revised on the same general plan as its predecessors In the new series. The play 1s not only one of the longest that Shake speare wrote, but the text abounds in obscurities and perplexities which, on account of the various readings and explanations adopted by the leading editors and critics, and for other reasons, demand more than usual discussion in the Notes.