Acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons for their kind permission to use the selections from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson contained in this book; also, to Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., The Century Co., and Doubleday & McClure Co. for selections from the writings of Rudyard Kipling.

W. F. WEBSTER.

Minneapolis, 1900.


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CONTENTS

[Chapter I.—Forms of Discourse]

[Chapter II.—Choice of Subject]