Correspondence Books
Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914
Sir Edgar R. JonesA selection of speeches made for the purpose of illustrating the best rhetorical form of British Oratory has already been published in 'The World's Classics'. The governing principle of this volume is..
The Glory of English Prose
Stephen ColeridgeThe Glory of English Prose is a collection of letters to his grandson written by Stephen Coleridge, an English author, barrister, opponent of vivisection, and co-founder of the National Society f..
Public Speaking
Clarence StrattonPublic Speaking is a criticism work written by Clarence Stratton; Ph.D., Director Of English, In High School, Cleveland.here never has been in the history of the world a time when the spoken word..
The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
William Dean HowellsWilliam Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the edi..
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52 - April 1667
Samuel PepysDiary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667 by Samuel Pepys. CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY, TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEG..
Hospital Sketches
Louisa May AlcottA considerable portion of this volume was published in successive numbers of The Commonwealth, newspaper, of Boston. The sudden popularity the Sketches won from the general public, and the praise they..
Evolution of Expression — Volume 1
Charles Wesley EmersonThe revised edition of the "Evolution of Expression" is issued in response to frequent requests from teachers and students for a formulation of those principles upon which natural methods in the teach..
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
Horace WalpoleWe are more successful, Madam, than I could flatter myself we should be. Mr. Conway—and I need say no more—has negotiated so well, that the Duke of Grafton is disposed to bring Mr. Beauclerk(151) in f..