after-thought,' a label or name, convenient for distinguishing one composition from another. Frequently, perhaps usually, the title is not even a complete sentence, but only a phrase, a word or two, a proper name. This is exemplified in the titles of the papers discussed in $59; also in the following, taken from a set of school papers: Woman's Work; Municipal Government; The White City; Our Birds; Forestry; Our Debt to Holland. Nearly all these school papers betrayed the writer's inability to distinguish between title and subject. Instead of first formulating, the writer had written upon a title. Consequently the papers were lacking in purpose, coherence, and force. The papers upon The White City, as might have been expected, were the most incoherent. Everything connected in any way with the great Chicago exhibition was apparently regarded as available. Yet one writer, at least, had the beginning of a plan. Evidently he had said to himself, consciously or unconsciously: I will first describe those objects which impressed me most, and then I will tell what I learned from them about our country's present and prospective greatTo that extent, then, his paper was methodical. ness. The following directions can be safely commended to all writers, young or old: 1. Complete your composition according to the directions given in SS 59-63. 2. When it is completed, prefix-as Title—a brief heading suggestive of the real subject. Thus, in the list given above, the composition entitled Our Birds might have been named, more suggestively, Habits of the Undomesticated Birds of New York; the one on Forestry might have been named The Need of the Study of Forestry in America. In general, the student should not follow the lead of poets, novelists, and other imaginative writers in their choice or 1 This is abundantly illustrated in the example quoted in 59 [The Sophomores Outwitted]. invention of titles. Sights and Insights may do for Mrs. Whitney's volume of travels; Aftermath, for a volume of Longfellow's poems; Sartor Resartus, for Carlyle's memorable essay; Præterita, for Ruskin's autobiography. the young, such titles are too fanciful. But for The prime duty of youth is to learn to be direct and explicit. Fancy, if genuine, will find expression soon enough in after-life. First Six Books of Eneid, Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, Horace's Odes, Satires, and Epistles, Selections from Horace, with Lexicon, Cicero De Senectute, et de Amicitia, Hart's Composition and Rhetoric. New and Revised Edition. For nearly a third of a century the original edition of this work was the standard school text-book on the subject; there are few schools in the country in which it has not been used. Its popularity was wide-spread and lasting, and was due to the manifest merit of the book and its remarkable adaptation to the practical wants of students. 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