A Guide to Comprehension and Précis [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Copyright permission has kindly been granted fór a number of quoted passages ; the publishers are grateful to all owners of copyright listed below fór their co-operation. The passage on page 19 from ' The Beast of Burden i by W. S. Maugham is taken from On a Chinese Screen, published by William Heinemann Ltd. Permission to reproduce this passage has been granted by the author and his publishers. Two extracts (page 30 and page 37) from The Migration of the Birds by Stanislaw Balinski are taken from Pleasures of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann. Permission has been granted by the author. Two extracts (page 48 and page 112) are taken from Destination Chungking by Han Suyin, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd. The passage 4 An Adventure under the Earth ' on page 53 is from Ten Tears under the Earth by N. Casteret, published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. The passage * A Hurricane ' on page 58 is from A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. The passage on page 62 by Sir John Pratt, was published as 4 The Yellow River : China's Sorrow ? ' in The Geographical Magaziné (London). Permission has been granted by the author. The passage on page 68 is from The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. The passage on page 72 by Mary Winser is taken from Sixteen Portraits, published by the Naldrett Press. The passage 4 An Odd Train Journey * on page 79 is from Hashish by Henry de Monfried, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. The passage on page 95 is from the abridged edition of Discovery by Sir Richard Gregory, published by Penguin Books Ltd. Permission has been granted by Lady Gregory. The passage on page 101 is from Venture to the Interior by Laurens van dér Post, published by the Hogarth Press. The passage on page 106 from The Undersea Adventure by Philippe Dióié is reproduced by permission of the author's representatives and the publishers Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. The passage 4 Dr Johnson ' on page 123 is from Essays on Life and Literature by Róbert Lynd, published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Two extracts (page 129 and page 134) are taken from A Shortened History of England by G. M. Trevelyan, published by Longmans, Green & Co. Inc. (C/R 1942). The passage 4 The Battle of Agincourt5 on page 140 is taken from King Henry V: A Chronicle by Philip Lindsay, published bv Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd. The essay 4 My First Article ' on page 160 is by J. B. Priestley, published by William Heinemann Ltd. Ifi