Oakley E.S. English Readings

Allahabud: National Press, 1910. — 290 p.Selected for the use of Indian Students with Notes and Explanations.
The purpose of the following work is to afford a selection of pieces representing, within due limits, a wide variety of styles and a copious vocabulary of ordinary standard English. An attempt is made to appeal to interest and imagination, and to keep in view throughout, though not too obtrusively, the importance of ethical suggestion. The standard is that of the School-leaving and Matriculation stage. The compiler ventures to hope that the book will meet a need, where no special text-book is prescribed, and that it will be found useful and appropriate, either for reading in class, for school libraries, or for presentation. The notes appended are such as appear necessary for the clearing-up of allusions and idiomatic difficulties in the way of the Indian student. This will explain why they may sometimes seem needless so the English reader. They are not intended to supersede the use of an ordinary dictionary or the explanations of the teacher.