I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Benjamin L. D'Ooge, of the Michigan State Normal School, for his generous assistance and hearty encouragement in the preparation of this work.
Sincere thanks are due to the various authors and publishers of copyrighted books from which selections are taken for their courteous permission to copy.
Specific acknowledgment is due George Bell and Sons, London, for Martial's _Epigrams_; Smith, Elder, and Company, London, for The Doom of the Slothful; Houghton, Mifflin Co., for After Construing, A Roman Mirror, Enceladus, and the poems of John G. Saxe; The Chautauqua Press, for Capri and the Translations of Horace's _Odes_; Charles Scribner's Sons, for the Assembly of the Gods, Cerberus, the Harpy, A Plea for the Classics, and _Malum Opus_; The American Book Company, for Cupid and the Bee; Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., for A Christmas Hymn; _New England Magazine_, for the Fall of Rome; Little, Brown and Company, for the translation of _Dies Irae_; The Outlook Company, for the Prayer of Socrates; Allyn and Bacon, for the music for _Flevit Lepus Parvulus_.
I must beg forgiveness of any one whose rights I have overlooked and of a few whom, after repeated efforts, I have been unable to trace.
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Buhlig's Business English 1.16 Spelling, punctuation, oral English, letter writing, and business practice. Duncan, Beck and Graves's Prose Specimens 1.16 Selections illustrating description, narration, exposition, and argumentation. Gerrish and Cunningham's Practical English Composition 1.24 Modern, progressive, teaching by example as well as by precept. Williams's Composition and Rhetoric by Practice 1.00 Concise and practical, with little theory and much practice. Woolley's Handbook of Composition .80 A systematic guide to the writing of correct English. Woolley's Written English 1.12 The main things to know in order to write English correctly.