A Book of Exposition

by Homer Heath Nugent

A BOOK OF EXPOSITION

EDITED BY

HOMER HEATH NUGENT

LAFLIN INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH AT THE RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1922

PREFACE

It is a pleasure to acknowledge indebtedness to my wife for assistance in editing and to Dr. Ray Palmer Baker, Head of the Department of English at the Institute, for suggestions and advice without which this collection would hardly have been made.

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CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTION]
[THE EXPOSITION OF A MECHANISM]
[THE LEVERS OF THE HUMAN BODY]
[THE EXPOSITION OF A MACHINE]
[THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE. PHILIP T. DODGE]
[THE EXPOSITION OF A PROCESS IN NATURE]
[THE PEA WEEVIL. JEAN HENRI FABRE. Translated by Bernard Miall]
[THE EXPOSITION OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESSM]
[MODERN PAPER-MAKING. J. W. BUTLER PAPER COMPANY]
[THE EXPOSITION OF AN IDEA]
[THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION. WILLIAM JAMES]
[SCIENCE AND RELIGION. CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ]
[BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES]