1. How does the writer show that her subject has universal appeal?
  2. Why does she describe people on their way to church?
  3. What types of people does she mention?
  4. How does the writer give the essay a quiet spirit?
  5. Point out examples of repetition.
  6. What is the effect of the last sentence?

SUBJECTS FOR WRITTEN IMITATION

1. Organ Music11. Church Interiors
2. The Violin12. Store Windows
3. An Orchestra13. Sympathy with Sorrow
4. A Brass Band14. Weddings
5. Patriotic Songs15. Receptions
6. Singing in Chorus16. The Dance
7. A Procession17. Evening
8. Going to Church18. A Stormy Night
9. Marching19. Solitude
10. Team Work20. Whistling

DIRECTIONS FOR WRITING

Show that your subject is one that appeals to almost every person, and that it appeals to you in particular. Show the connection between your subject and various types of people. Give your essay a serious note, especially at the close.

DISCOVERY

By GEORGES DUHAMEL

(1884—). A surgeon in the service of the French army during the World War. He turned to authorship as a means of distraction from the horrors of war. His work entitled Civilization won the Goncourt Prize for Fiction. Among his other works are The New Book of Martyrs; Combat; Heart's Domain.

An open eye and an attentive ear do much to make life enjoyable,—that is the thought of Georges Duhamel's essay on Discovery. It is evident that the writer deeply appreciates the pleasure of exploration, even though the exploration be among the humblest and least-noticed objects. Perhaps some recent experience turned his attention to the thought, “Discovery is delightful.” At any rate, he has seized upon the idea,—as though it were one of the things that he has discovered,—and writes his meditation on it with the easy interest with which he observes the gravel in a bubbling brook or a lily floating on the surface of the water.

Discovery! It seems as if this word were one of a cluster of magic keys—one of those keys that make all doors open before our feet. We know that to possess is to understand, to comprehend. That, in a supreme sense, is what discovery means.