Talks on Writing English: First Series

327 Pages., Complete and Unabridged. An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: THE ART OF WRITING. INTO all productive art enter two sorts of power, that which is communicable and that which is incommunicable, - in other words, that which may be taught and that which is inborn. Upon this fact is based the distinction between the mechanical and the fine arts, although since both kinds of power have a share in all production nobody has ever been able to draw a sharp and definite lin...