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BY

J. SCOTT CLARK, LITT.D.

AUTHOR OF A PRACTICAL RHETORIC," A STUDY OF ENGLISH PROSE
WRITERS, ETC., AND PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

"Le Style c'est l'homme."-BUFFON

"The whole art of criticism consists in learning to
know the human being who is partially revealed to us
in his written and spoken words."-LESLIE STEPHEN

STANFORD LIBRAL /

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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