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There are 7 footnotes: each of them is placed at the end of thechapter in which it is flagged.
The spelling and hyphenation are as found in the original text.
Books by Arlo Bates.
THE DIARY OF A SAINT.Crown 8vo, $1.50.
LOVE IN A CLOUD.A Novel. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
THE PURITANS.A Novel. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
THE PHILISTINES.A Novel. 12mo, $1.50.
THE PAGANS.A Novel. 16mo, $1.00.
PATTY’S PERVERSITIES.A Novel. 16mo, $1.00.
PRINCE VANCE. TheStory of a Prince with a Court in his Box.By and.Crown 8vo, $1.50.
A LAD’S LOVE.16mo, $1.00.
UNDER THE BEECH-TREE.Poems. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
TALKS ON WRITING ENGLISH.First Series. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
TALKS ON WRITING ENGLISH.Second Series. Crown 8vo, $1.30, net. Postpaid, $1.42.
TALKS ON TEACHING LITERATURE.Crown 8vo, $1.30, net. Postpaid, $1.42.
TALKS ON THE STUDY OF LITERATURE.Crown 8vo, $1.50.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York.
TALKS
ON
WRITING ENGLISH
First Series
BY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1896,
By ARLO BATES.
All rights reserved.
PREFACE
These talks were given in the autumn of 1894as a course on Advanced English Composition inthe Lowell Free Classes, and that they are nowprinted is largely due to the fact that they wereso well received by those who then heard them.In preparing them, I consulted whatever booksupon composit