Paragraph-Writing By F. N. SCOTT, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan, and J. V. DENNEY, Professor of English in Ohio State University. Revised edition. 12mo, cloth, 480 pages. Price, $1.25. OR this new edition the book has been entirely rewritten and amenat is, before, to treat the paragraph as the unit of composition; in adapting the work, however, to the present needs of college and university classes many modifications in general plan and in detail have been made. Among these changes may be mentioned the following: The book has been enlarged so as to include the various types of composition- that is, Description, Narration, Exposition, and Argument. These are treated at length and with a thoroughness corresponding to their present importance in college work. The exercises for individual work have been removed from the text and placed in a division by themselves. This arrangement lends continuity to the text and at the same time gives space for a greatly extended series of progressive exercises offering a wide choice to instructor and student. The illustrative matter of the preceding edition, through long use somewhat familiar to both teacher and student, has been replaced by fresh and worthy material from a great variety of sources. In amount this material has been more than doubled. American Literature with Readings By ROY BENNETT PACE, Assistant Professor of English in Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 12mo, cloth, 671 pages. Price, $1.35. THE HIS book is the author's American Literature and Readings in American Literature bound together in one volume. With it in the hands of the pupil, teachers are able to carry out, at no great expense, the author's plan of studying the various writers with their works in accessible form. American Literature By Professor ROY BENNETT PACE, of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 12mo, cloth, 289 pages. Price $1.00. THIS HIS book is the outcome of personal experience with the problem of teaching literature to young people. No writer is treated unless the student may reasonably be expected to read some of his work. The author avoids the long list of names and dates common to manuals of literature. No effort has been made to treat very recent writers. It is felt that judgment cannot yet be passed on their work and that the pupil will already have become familiar with many of them through the magazines. The author nowhere sacrifices simplicity in an effort at literary effect. Too often in text-books in literature, a good chapter is spoiled by a few flights of fancy or a clever analogy quite beyond the student's observation and experience. Southern literature is given more space than is usual in manuals of this sort. No pains have been spared to equip the book with useful and practical illustrations. Homes and haunts of authors, manuscripts and title-pages, portraits and monuments, are the subjects of attractive pictures. Readings in American Literature A By Professor ROY BENNETT PACE, of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pennsylvania. 12mo, cloth, 373 pages. Price, $1.00. LTHOUGH this book is intended as a companion to the author's own American Literature, it will be found useful in connection with any of the other text-books in the subject. The best-known authors in American literature are represented, and an effort has been made to give some of the best and most distinctive work of each. A feature of the Readings is the prominence given to early American writers. This literature is quaint and interesting and at the same time affords an excellent model of good English. 5 From Milton to Tennyson Masterpieces of English Poetry. Edited by L. DU PONT SYLE, late Associate Professor of English Literature in the University of California. 12mo, cloth, 480 pages. Price, $1.00. N this work the editor has endeavored to bring together within In the compass of a moderate-sized volume, as lucht narrative, descriptive, and lyric verse as a student may reasonably be required to read critically for entrance to college. From the nineteen poets represented, only such masterpieces have been selected as are within the range of the understanding and the sympathy of the high school student. Each masterpiece is given complete, except for pedagogical reasons in the cases of Thomson, Cowper, Byron, and Browning. Exigencies of space have compelled the editor reluctantly to omit Scott from this volume. The copyright laws, of course, exclude American poets from the scope of this work. The following poets are represented: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Lycidas, and a Selection from the Sonnets. Vanity of Human Wishes. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and The Bard. Winter Morning Walk. Cotter's Saturday Night, Tam O'Shanter, and a Selection from the Songs. Ancient Mariner. Isles of Greece, and Selections from Childe Harold, Manfred, and Eve of St. Agnes, Ode to a Nightingale, Sonnet on Chapman's Euganean Hills, The Cloud, The Skylark, and the Two Sonnets Laodamia, The Highland Girl, Tintern Abbey, The Cuckoo, The Horatius. Two Ships, the Prologue to the Mari Magno, and the Lawyer's The Scholar-Gypsy and The Forsaken Merman. Transcript from Euripides (Balaustion's Adventure). Enone, Morte D'Arthur, The Miller's Daughter, and a Selection from the Songs. |