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Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. [*]$1.10. Macmillan.
These essays have been selected with the object of supplementing the technical works on methods and forms. The volume includes Literature, by John Henry Newman; Style, by Thomas de Quincey; The philosophy of style, by Herbert Spencer; The principles of success in literature, by George Henry Lewis; Style in literature—its technical elements, by Robert Louis Stevenson; Style, by Walter Pater; and Our English prose, by Frederic Harrison. Professor Brewster has included an introduction, notes and questions, and an index.
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