[PART III]
[STUDIES OF GREAT AUTHORS]
In making use of these Studies, the reader is advised to adopt the following method:
Read the sketches of the author in the Study and in front of the selections and then read the selections themselves. Next answer the questions in the Study, taking care to give reasons for each answer, with illustrations carefully chosen from the author's work, wherever possible. In making comparisons between authors or selections remember that points of contrast as well as of likeness should be considered.
Be sure to keep in mind the essentials of Part II, and refer not only to them but to the Index for references to national characteristics, history, and authors.
Further reading should be selected from the author's works given in the notes which precede the selections and from the biographical and critical works mentioned at the end of each Study.
