DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING
If you cannot quote from the words of written articles you can at least quote from what people have said in conversation. You can also make full use of your own experience. Begin your essay, as Mr. Frank begins his, by making some statement of actual experience. When you have done this add original comments that will lead, in the end, to a wise suggestion for the future. Both by the use of the pronoun “I,” and by a certain informality of style, make your work personal.
FOOTNOTES:
[136] Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400). Author of The Canterbury Tales, a series of realistic narratives in verse.
[137] Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625). Two of the most celebrated of Shakespeare's contemporaries. They wrote in collaboration, and produced at least 52 plays.
[138] Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866). Author of a number of highly original and witty novels.
[139] Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). An English novelist who wrote chiefly of the mysterious and terrible, as in The Mysteries of Udolpho, her most famous book.
[140] Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). A great German philosopher, one of the most profound thinkers who ever lived.
[141] Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). A German philosopher noted for his pessimistic beliefs.
[142] Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Novelist, essayist, poet and traveler, noted for his personal appeal and the charm of his style.
[143] Rudyard Kipling (1865—). A popular present-day novelist, short story writer and poet.
[144] Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893). A French critic, especially noted for his History of English Literature.
[145] Henry of Navarre (1553-1610). King of Navarre and later King of France, author of the celebrated Edict of Nantes.
[146] Beatrice d'Este (1475-1497). A beautiful and highly cultured Duchess of Milan who, in spite of her early death, deeply influenced the intellectual leaders of her time.
[147] Charles the Fifth (1500-1558). A masterful and virile Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
[148] Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882). A great Italian patriot who aided in bringing about the unification of Italy. He was at one time a citizen of the United States, and was employed in a candle factory on Staten Island, New York.
[149] George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876). An English historian, author of important works on Garibaldi.
[150] The Tombs. A New York City prison.
[151] Karl Baedeker (1801-1859). The originator of Baedeker's Guide Books to various lands.