BY
GUY N. POCOCK, M.A.
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Late Head of the History and English Department, Military Side,
Cheltenham College
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
50 OLD BAILEY LONDON
GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
The object of this little book is to teach précis writingfrom the very start. It has been found fromexperience that the average boy who in the LowerFifth Form starts making précis of Government BlueBooks and Collected Correspondence, will flounderabout for a whole term without understanding whathe is really expected to do.
The following exercises are progressive and therules of strict précis writing are learnt one by one.The exercises are really very simple parodies ofGovernment Reports, &c., such as a boy will have todeal with in the higher forms and the Army Examinations.They are arranged in groups, e.g. Reports,Correspondence, Trials, Ships’ Logs, and so forth.After working through the series a boy should beperfectly competent to tackle the real thing.
Incidentally, there is no better training than préciswriting for concentration of thought and expression.
G. N. P.
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
April, 1917.
| Page | ||
| 1. | Reported Speech | 10 |
| 2. | George Oakes | 13 |
| 3. | The Cobra | 15 |
| 4. | The Two Lieutenants | 19 |
| 5. | The Black Republic | 23 |
| 6. | The Professor and the Monkeys | 27 |
| 7. | The Island | 31 |
| 8. | A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial | 35 |
| 9. | The Miser | 39 |
| 10. | The Boy Scouts | 43 |
| 11. | Child Labourers in 1836 | 47 |
| 12. | The Museum, 300 B.C. | 51 | ...