gush, he [C. Dickens] protests, 'Nobody will miss her like I shall.' -John Foster.

(20) There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as can not fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror.-Smollett.

(21) De had a painful complaint, which, sometimes keeping him awake, made him sleep, perhaps, when it did come, the deeper. -De Quincey.

(22) Friendship is excellent, and friendship may be called love; but it is not love. It may be more enduring and placidly satisfying in the end; it may be better and wiser and more prudent for acquaintance to beget esteem, and esteem regard, and regard affection, and affection an interchange of peaceful vows; the result, a well-ordered life and home. All this is admirable, no doubt; an owl is a bird when you can get no other; but the love born of a moment, yet born of eternity, which comes but once in a lifetime, and to one in a thousand lives, unquestioning, unthinking, investigating nothing, proving nothing, sufficient unto itself—ah, that is divine.-Anna Dickinson.

(23) Of the two, the simple structure is the more conducive to perspicuity, for where the sentences are long great care is needed that the clauses be kept in their proper order and relation; that the leading subject be retained prominently before the mind; and that too many things be not crowded together.-De Mille.

5. Capitalize and punctuate:

(1) in this gods world with its wild whirling eddies and madfoam oceans where men and nations perish as if without law and judgment for an unjust thing sternly delayed dost thou think that there is therefore no justice it is what the fool has said in his heart it is what the wise in all times were wise because they desired and knew for ever not to be i tell thee again there is nothing else but justice one strong thing i find here below the just thing the true thing my friend if thou hadst all the artillery of woolwich marching at thy back in support of an unjust thing and infinite bonfires visibly awaiting ahead of thee to blaze centuries to come for thy victory on behalf of it i would advise thee to call halt.-carlyle

(2) and all the while our lines were moving on they had burned through the woods and swept over the rough and rolling ground like a prairie fire never halting never faltering they charged up to

the first rifle-pits with a cheer if the thunder of the guns had been terrible it was now growing sublime it was like the footfall of god on the ledges of cloud our forts and batteries still thrust out their mighty arms across the valley the guns that lined the arc of the crest full in our front opened like the fan of lucifer and converged their fire it was rifles and musketry it was grape and canister it was shell and shrapnel mission ridge was volcanic a thousand torrents of red poured over its brink and rushed together to its base and still the sublime diapason rolled on echoes that had never waked before roared out from height to height and called from the far ranges of waldrons ridge to lookout mountain-benj ƒ taylor camp and field

(3) cleon true possesseth acres but the landscape i

half the charms to me it yieldeth money cannot buy
cleon harbors sloth and dulness freshening vigor i
he in velvet i in fustian richer man am i

cleon is a slave to grandeur free as thought am i
cleon fees a score of doctors need of none have i
wealth-surrounded care-environed cleon fears to die
death may come he'll find me ready happier man am i
-charles mackay

(4) thou little tricksy puck

with antic toys so funnily bestuck

light as the singing bird that wings the air
the door the door he'll tumble down the stair
thou darling of thy sire

why jane he'll set his pinafore afire

thou imp of mirth and joy

in loves dear chain so strong so bright a link
thou idol of thy parents drat the boy

there goes my ink-hood

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.BANCROFT.

WE

E speak of style in architecture, in painting, in music, or in any of the fine arts, meaning thereby the mode of presentation; of style in manners, meaning the characteristic way of conducting one's self; of style in dress, meaning the prevalent fashion, or that peculiar to an individual. So style in discourse is the special manner in which thought is expressed. Note the points of difference and resemblance in the following. Observe the Anglo-Saxon simplicity of some, and the classical stateliness of others. One shows a decided preference for short sentences, another for long. Here the movement is calm and regular; there, disjointed, jerky, volcanic:

A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance in riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into the fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.-Bible.

Were I ambitious of any other patron than the public, I would inscribe this work to a statesman who, in a long a stormv and at

length an unfortunate administration, had many political opponents almost without a personal enemy; who has retained on his fall from power many faithful and disinterested friends, and who under the pressure of severe infirmity enjoys the lively vigor of his mind and the felicity of his incomparable temper.-Gibbon.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with pack-thread -do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words as hard againthough it contradict everything you said to-day. 'Ah, then,' exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word.-Emerson.

To omit mere prurient susceptivities that rest on vacuum, look at poor Byron, who really had much substance in him. Sitting there in his self-exile, with a proud heart striving to persuade itself that it despises the entire created universe; and far off, in foggy Babylon, let any pitifullest whipster draw pen on him, your proud Byron writhes in torture, as if the pitiful whipster were a magician, or his pen a galvanic wire struck into Byron's spinal marrow! Lamentable, despicable, one had rather be a kitten and cry mew! Oh, son of Adam, great or little, according as thou art lovable, those thou livest with will love thee!-Carlyle.

'Style' is from the Latin stylus, a steel instrument used by the Romans for writing on waxen tablets. By an easy metaphor it came to denote the method of composition, as 'pen' is now frequently a symbol for author or literature.

Subjective Aspect.-As the attire, the behavior, the air, indicate the disposition and habits of the person whether cleanly or slovenly, tasteful or tawdry, sensible or foolish, refined or boorish so a writer's style is, in no unimportant sense, the material expression of his soul-life; for his words are but the outward signs, the visible copies, of his ideas. His choice of terms, his way of putting them together, make (to speak conventionally) the garment of his

thought, showing by the fall of the folds (when once you have learned to read) what he likes, what he can do,— his clumsiness, his cleverness, his imagination, his delights. If the words carry too much ornament, you may know that he is greedy of pleasure; if too little, that he is hard, dry, insensitive, and the like; if too great bulk, that he is affected; if full of commonplaces set forth with solemnity or flourish, that he is silly; if volubly uttered, with volume of sound, reaching us as sounds and nothing more, that he is unreal and hollow; if murky or obscure, that he has a confused habit of mind, vagueness and indirectness of purpose. At root, the virtues of style are moral. Hence the saying of Milton, that he who would write good poetry must make his life a poem. It is partly, no doubt, because style is the unconscious revelation of the hidden self, that men are influenced by language as much as by ideas.

Objective Aspect.-Though style receives its peculiar form chiefly from the mental movements of which it is the expression, it is greatly modified by external conditions as fulness and force of vocabulary; the choice, number, and arrangement of words; frequency of practice in composition; completeness of preparation, and carefulness of finish; the nature of the subjects treated, the end sought, and the power of persons addressed. The inner and the outer, the original and the acquired, blend and reveal themselves in the result.

Diversities. Style, then, varies with many considerations, but preeminently with character. In literature as in painting, Orientals are more fanciful or picturesque than Europeans; savages than civilized men. The Italians are warm and passionate; the French, rapid and sparkling; the Germans, clumsy and unwieldy --Lessing, Richter, and a few others, excepted.