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SELECTED AND EDITED

BY

GEORGE RICE CARPENTER

AND

WILLIAM TENNEY BREWSTER

PROFESSORS IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1917

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; September, 1917.

028 ja 165€

PREFACE

OUR aim in compiling this volume has been to present the largest possible amount of illustrative material for classes in rhetoric and English composition. In proportion as the secondary teaching of English becomes more adequate, the need of instructing freshmen in elementary rhetorical principles tends to disappear, and with it much of the importance of a text-book of rhetoric. Even where the text-book cannot be dispensed with altogether, the experienced teacher will wish to have it supplemented as much as possible by the reading and study of good models. Practically, as we have all found, this must be done by using a volume of illustrative material. But the available books of this sort are few. They contain comparatively little matter, and this matter consists mainly of short extracts, often illustrative only of one special form of composition. Our aim has been to present a rich store of material in complete essays, stories, chapters, or component parts of larger works, to provide illustration for all the main forms of composition, and to offer as little annotation and explanation as possible. The notes and questions at the end of the volume are merely suggestive, and though the book may be used by itself, it can also be

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made supplementary to any of the standard treatises on rhetoric.

The selections are complete and unabridged in every case, except that of Hudson's Plains of Patagonia, where a short excursus was omitted. The texts are, so far as possible, based upon first or standard editions. Footnotes in brackets are those of the compilers. Foot-notes not in brackets are those of the original authors. Το economize space we have, however, omitted authors' footnotes when they consisted merely of bibliographical references or similar unessential matter.

JANUARY, 1904.

G. R. C.

W. T. B.

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