A SECOND MANUAL OF COMPOSITION DESIGNED FOR USE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS BY EDWIN HERBERT LEWIS, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE LEWIS INSTITUTE, CHICAGO New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1913 All rights reserved [Auo T769. 12.510- HARVARD OLLEGE LIDSARY GIFT OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped October, 1900. Reprinted April, Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE ALTHOUGH no prefatory defence of a textbook can in itself have much weight when the book is constantly being taken from the teacher's desk and submitted to the searching tests of the class room, yet it is only a matter of courtesy that the author should try to state his point of view, The view taken in this book regards the aim of Composition as twofold first, to help the student by methods both constructive and critical to master a simple, correct, and closely reasoned style; and secondly, to exercise his imagination, his sense of beauty, and his sense of conduct. The book does what it can to help in accomplishing these ends. It can be used for a one year course or a two year course, by second, third, or fourth year pupils in a secondary school. It does not assume that the student has already approached composition systematically, although it recognizes the necessity of giving different illustrative material and a |