A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body
of the New York State College for Teachers,
Albany, 1919, 1920
BY
JOHN T. SLATTERY, Ph.D.
WITH A PREFACE BY
JOHN H. FINLEY, L.H.D.
New York
P. J. Kenedy & Sons
1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY P. J. KENEDY & SONS,
NEW YORK
Printed in U.S.A.
DEDICATION
THIS MODEST WORK OWES ITS
PUBLICATION TO THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF
PRESIDENT ABRAM R. BRUBACHER
AND
DEAN HARLAN H. HORNER
OF THE STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS, ALBANY, N.Y.
WHERE MANY PLEASANT HOURS WERE PASSED IN
DELIVERING THESE LECTURES. TO THESE FRIENDS
AND TO THE STUDENT-BODY OF THE COLLEGE THE
AUTHOR HAS THE HONOR OF DEDICATING THIS BOOK