English Composition (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from English Composition

The extent of my indebtedness to writers on English composition is hard to estimate. The books with which I am most familiar and from which I have received most help are Charles Sears Baldwin's Specimens of Description, William Tenney Brewster's Specimens of Narration, Hueber Gray Buehler's Practical Exercises in English, George Rice Carpenter's Exercises in Rhetoric, John F. Genung's Practical Elements of Rhetoric, Robert Herrick and Lindsay Todd Damon's Composition and Rhetoric, Alphonso G. Newcomer's Elements of Rhetoric, Fred. N. Scott and Joseph V. Denney's Paragraph Writing, John Hays Gardiner's Forms of Prose Literature, Adams Sher man Hill's Foundations of Rhetoric, Principles of Rhetoric, and Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition; George Pierce Baker's Principles of Argumentation, and Barrett Wendell's English Composition. To the last two treatises my debt is direct and obvious. The chapter on argu mentation, like everything recently written on that topic, follows Baker closely; and this book as a whole is based on lvendell. From Professors Gardiner, Hill, Baker, and Wendell I also got more than instruction through books.

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