1. See pp. 13, 14, of the Report of Committee on College Entrance Requirements. [(Back)]
  2. See the first essay in Prose Fancies. [(Back)]
  3. Unless otherwise stated, all page references are to the Riverside Literature Series. [(Back)]
  4. Biglow Papers, No. X. [(Back)]
  5. Tennyson’s Œnone. [(Back)]
  6. Historical Sketches, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  7. Pierre et Jean, by Maupassant. Quoted from Bates’s Talks on Writing English. [(Back)]
  8. Impressions de Théâtre, by Jules Lemaître. [(Back)]
  9. The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. [(Back)]
  10. Travels with a Donkey, by R. L. Stevenson. [(Back)]
  11. Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo. [(Back)]
  12. The Stage Coach, in Irving’s Sketch Book. [(Back)]
  13. The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. [(Back)]
  14. To W. L. Garrison, by J. R. Lowell. [(Back)]
  15. Idea of a University, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  16. Essay on Milton, by Lord Macaulay. [(Back)]
  17. Discussions and Arguments. [(Back)]
  18. Essay on Milton. [(Back)]
  19. The Physical Basis of Life, by T. H. Huxley. [(Back)]
  20. Self-Cultivation in English, by Professor G. H. Palmer. [(Back)]
  21. Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, by Burke. [(Back)]
  22. A text-book on Logic, such as Jevons’s, should be used to illustrate the kinds of argument more fully. [(Back)]
  23. Silas Marner, by George Eliot. [(Back)]
  24. The Odd Number, by Guy de Maupassant. [(Back)]
  25. Vanity Fair, by W. M. Thackeray. [(Back)]
  26. Idyl of the Honey-Bee, from Burroughs’s Pepacton. [(Back)]
  27. Essay on Wordsworth, by Matthew Arnold. [(Back)]
  28. Speech on Copyright, by Lord Macaulay. [(Back)]
  29. Idyl of the Honey-Bee, from Burroughs’s Pepacton. [(Back)]
  30. The Physical Basis of Life, by T. H. Huxley. [(Back)]
  31. See Scott and Denney’s Composition-Rhetoric. [(Back)]
  32. Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving. [(Back)]
  33. Essay on Milton, by Lord Macaulay. [(Back)]
  34. Kidnapped, by R. L. Stevenson. [(Back)]
  35. Præterita, by John Ruskin. [(Back)]
  36. Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, by Burke. [(Back)]
  37. Barrett Wendell’s English Composition. [(Back)]
  38. Oration on Adams and Jefferson, by Daniel Webster. [(Back)]
  39. Present Position of Catholics in England, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  40. Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, by Burke. [(Back)]
  41. Speech on the Reform Bill of 1832, by Lord Macaulay. [(Back)]
  42. Idea of a University, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  43. Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving. [(Back)]
  44. Idea of a University, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  45. Idea of a University, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  46. Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, by Burke. [(Back)]
  47. Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving. [(Back)]
  48. Function of Criticism at the Present Time, by Matthew Arnold. [(Back)]
  49. Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, by Burke. [(Back)]
  50. The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, by Josiah Royce. [(Back)]
  51. See Lowell’s Biglow Papers, Introduction to Second Series. [(Back)]
  52. Idea of a University, by Cardinal Newman. [(Back)]
  53. From The Princess: a Medley, Part IV. [(Back)]
  54. From The Seven Seas, published by D. Appleton & Co., New York. Copyright, 1896, by Rudyard Kipling. [(Back)]
  55. In any piece of literature there are many figures. The following should be used only to make pupils familiar with varieties of figures. They will find many more in the literature they read. [(Back)]
  56. The treatment of this subject is based upon Lanier’s The Science of English Verse. [(Back)]
  57. See p. [xix]. [(Back)]