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The pictures accompanying the descriptive extracts by Scott, Hawthorne, Ruskin, Blackmore, Stevenson, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Phillpotts, and others will, it is hoped, prove stimulating. By comparing pictures of actual scenes with descriptions of these scenes from the same point of View, students gain a lively sense of method and choice of words. Furthermore, in the treatment of setting in narration, the illustrations emphasize the skill with which authors have infused the atmosphere of place and country into their stories.

The arrangement of the book follows the order in which students do their work. First comes that part of the process of writing which takes place before any words are put on paper namely, gathering and weighing of material: here special attention is given to the various preparatory steps the use of books and periodicals for expository and argumentative material, the weighing and estimating of one authority against another, the use of libraries, catalogues, indexes, and the making of notes on books and lectures. Then follows the discussion of the principles which come into play in the particular form of composition which the writer decides to work in. The succeeding parts deal in turn with the structure of para graphs and sentences, and the effective use of words. Assignments of reading and exercises, however, may be given in any order which suits a teacher's methods.

In the frequent references to College Readings in English Prose, edited by F. W. Scott and Jacob Zeitlin, that use ful work is cited as College Readings.

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