Style

Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)


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an excerpt from the book:

The Problem of Style.

In the effort to explain the principles of an art so bewildering in its variety, writers on style have gladly availed themselves of analogy from the other arts, and have spoken, for the most part, not without a parable. It is a pleasant trick they put upon their pupils, whom they gladden with the delusion of a golden age, and pe...