Modern Essays and Stories / A book to awaken appreciation of modern prose, and to develop ability and originality in writing

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DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING

Select both a subject and a theme in which you are interested. Take your note-book and consult encyclopedias, histories, and books of biography, noting down everything that has relation to your particular subject and theme. Hunt especially for interesting anecdotes; if they are humorous,—so much the better.

You will do well to introduce your article with an appropriate quotation. Make your writing as conversational and as anecdotal as possible. Don't be in the least bit encyclopedic. Be gossipy.

FOOTNOTES:

[52] George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857). The adopted son of George Washington.

[53] Dr. S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914). An American physician and novelist. His novel, Hugh Wynne, concerns the life of Washington.

[54] General Charles Lee (1731-1782). An American Revolutionary General court-martialed for disobedience at the battle of Monmouth, 1778.

THE HISTORICAL STORY