PROSE SELECTED AND EDITED BY GEORGE RICE CARPENTER AND WILLIAM TENNEY BREWSTER PROFESSORS IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1916 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published January, 1904. Reprinted April, October, 1904; January, 1905; January, October, 1906; January 1907; August, 1908; February, 1909; January, 1910; April, 1912; February, 1913; January, 1916. classes in rhetoric and English tion as the secondary teaching o adequate, the need of instructing rhetorical principles tends to dis of the importance of a text-book the text-book cannot be dispen experienced teacher will wish to much as possible by the reading a Practically, as we have all foun using a volume of illustrative ma books of this sort are few. Th little matter, and this matter extracts, often illustrative only composition. Our aim has been of material in complete essays, ponent parts of larger works, t all the main forms of compositi annotation and explanation as questions at the end of the volun and though the book may be use |