Excerpt from Essay, Mock-Essays and Character Sketches Reprinted From the Journal of Education: With Original Contributions by Lionel a Tollemache and Others
S a volume of reprints seems to need some apology, the Editor may venture to explain its genesis. Prizes ofi'ered about a year ago for the best imitations of essays by Bacon and other standard English essayists produced such a number of excellent compositions that it was impossible to find room for several of high merit, and disappointed candidates were consoled by the promise that they should appear in a fourth volume of the series of Prize Translaiz'om. But on second thoughts it seemed doubtful whether a book consisting solely of prose parodies would be much appreciated except by the authors, and thus these Mock Essays have devel oped into Essays and Mock Essays, a mixture of sert'a Judo. With the material of twenty years to choose from, the task of selection has not been easy. The articles chosen may all be classed as educational in the widest sense of the word, but esoteric pedagogics have been eschewed, and nothing has been admitted but what is likely to appeal to lay as well as to professional readers. If education labours under the aspersion of dulness, one reason is that those who write and talk about it toocommonly know nothing of its actual working, and this volume may be taken as a practical vindica tion of schoolmasters against Charles Lamb's too sweeping charge of pedantry and priggism. The Editor takes this Opportunity of heartily thanking.
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