ethics, and social economy (1819-1900). His works, collected in thirteen volumes, include Modern Painters, 18431860; Stones of Venice; Seven Lamps of Architecture; Ethics of the Dust; Sesame and Lilies; Time and Tide; Fors Clavigera; etc.

Sir Walter Scott, one of the greatest of novelists, and a poet. Early 19th c. (1771-1832). The Waverley Novels, mostly historical, including Waverley, The Monastery, The Abbot, Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, Quentin Durward, The Heart of Midlothian, Guy Mannering, The Bride of Lammermoor, and others almost as well known. His poems include The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), The Lady of the Lake (1810), and Marmion.

William Shakspere, the greatest of dramatic poets. Late 16th and early 17th c. (1564-1616). His plays are : (a) Historical: Henry IV, Henry V, Richard III, Richard II., King John. (b) Legendary: Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Cæsar, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline. (c) Fictitious : Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, All's Well that Ends Well, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello, Winter's Tale, Tempest. Shakspere also wrote 154 sonnets and several other poems.

Robert Southey, English poet (laureate next before Wordsworth). 19th c. (1774-1843). His (prose) Life of Nelson is admirable.

Laurence Sterne, English novelist and preacher.

18th c.

(1713-1768). A Sentimental Journey; Tristram Shandy; Sermons.

Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the most admired of recent English writers of fiction (1850-1894). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Master of Ballantrae; David Balfour; Treasure Island; The New Arabian Nights. Will of the Mill; and other short stories. Essays: Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Virginibus Puerisque; Sketches and Criticisms. Note-books: An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey. Poems: A Child's Garden of Verses.

Bayard Taylor, American writer of travels, poems, and novels. 19th c. (1825-1878). The Land of the Saracens; Views Afoot; Boys of Other Countries; Byways of Europe; Translation of "Faust"; Prince Deucalion; Poems of the Orient. Novels: Hannah Thurston; Story of Kennet. Jeremy Taylor, English divine. 17th c. (1713-1767). Ser

mons; Holy Living; Holy Dying. Alfred Tennyson, the most popular and one of the greatest of modern English poets. 19th c. (1809-1892). Longer poems In Memoriam; Idyls of the King; The Princess; Maud; Enoch Arden. Dramas: Queen Mary; Harold; Becket. Many beautiful shorter poems.

Henry D. Thoreau, American naturalist and essayist. 19th c. (1817-1862). A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers; Walden; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod; Summer; Winter.

Mrs. Humphry Ward, noted English woman novelist (1851). Robert Elsmere; David Grieve; Marcella; The Story of Bessie Costrell.

Daniel Webster, the greatest American orator. 19th c. (17821852). Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson; Bunker Hill Orations; Speech in Reply to Hayne (1829); Speech on the Murder of Captain White.

Walt Whitman, regarded by some as one of the greatest of American poets and writers of prose. 19th c. (1819-1892). Poems all included under the title, Leaves of Grass. His prose includes: Collect; Democratic Vistas; Specimen Days in America; The Wound Dresser.

John Greenleaf Whittier, a well-known American writer of ballads and other poems. 19th c. (1807-1892). Maud

Muller; The Barefoot Boy; Barbara Frietchie; Snowbound; Among the Hills. Many favorite short poems. Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. Riggs), American writer of juvenile stories and other books (1857- ). The Birds' Christmas Carol; The Story of Patsy; Children's Rights; A Cathedral Courtship; A Summer in Southern California.

INDEX

Accuracy in use of words, 188-191, 199- Comma, uses of, 234, 235.

Effects, statement of, in description, | Letter writing, 162–176.

English language, brief history of, Merchant of Venice, 93.

French element in English speech, 221- Omissions in sentences, 57, 113-115.

Indirect and direct narration, 147, 148, Perry's Victory, 106.

Latin elements in English, 222, 226, Precision in use of words, 188-191, 199-