FROM

THE BEST

ENGLISH ESSAYS.

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH PROSE STYLE

CHOSEN AND ARRANGED WITH
HISTORICAL & CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

By SHERWIN

CODY

EDITOR OF "THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES,AND AUTHOR
OF THE ART OF WRITING AND SPEAKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG, PH.D., Professor of Rhetoric at Amherst College

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