WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES Illustrative of the History of Short Story Writing, with Critical and Historical Comments by Sherwin Cody. Fourteen Stories. Third Edition. Printed on thin Bible paper. 18mo, 412 pages, $1.00 net; delivered, $1.08. I. The series of fourteen introductions to the various stories constitute the only comprehensive history of short story writing as an art ever published. With the stories at hand, these introductions also briefly point out the elementary principles in the artistic construction of any short story, so giving the reader a key for intelligently reading any story. 2. The stories from the French and Italian have been newly translated into English that has something of the flavor of the original. Such translations are not to be found elsewhere. THE STORIES INCLUDED ARE: PATIENT GRISELDA, from the RIP VAN WINKLE, by Wash- A PASSION IN THE DESERT, A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR, A PRINCESS'S TRAGEDY, from "Barry Lyndon," by W. M. 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The general reader will find in this volume the most charming essays (thirty-five in all, by ten different writers) which the great humorists and critics of life have produced. The selection is at the same time scholarly and popular, and eminently readable. The reviewers are unanimous in the opinion that is the best that any one could possibly make. No better volume could be imagined for a class in rhetoric, in daily or weekly theme-writing, or in the artistic elements of modern English prose literature. His choice, both of writers and their works, may be heartily commended. — Boston Transcript. The book is just what its title promises. Chicago Record-Herald. The selections of the authors studied in this volume have been made with good discrimination and judgment. Worcester Spy. A. C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers, Chicago WORLD'S GREAT ORATIONS Illustrative of the History of Oratory and the Art of Public Speaking. Chosen and edited with a series of Introductions by Sherwin Cody. 18mo, $1.00 net; delivered, $1.08. The admirable introductions provided by Mr. Cody, elaborating on the conditions and circumstances under which these famous orations were delivered, make a thorough understanding much more possible. They help to supply the dramatic setting which enables the reader to imagine himself an actual auditor, feeling the emotions of those whom the orator is addressing. The editor has endeavored to present the different ways in which a speaker may sway his audience, and in his introductions he has suggested the peculiar advantages of each mode. His standpoint of consideration has been, however, not so much the effect of eloquence as of the great questions of rhetorical construction. It is an invaluable book for any one looking forward to a public career, and it is a book of models for any class in public speaking or debating. DEMOSTHENES: CONTENTS Crown" (in part). Translated by CICERO: "I am a Roman Citizen " CURRAN: The Press (libel case) Sheridan- Continued. tice" (from oration on the Begums in the trial of Warren Hastings) FOX: "Let us Pause" (from Speech on Rejection of Bonaparte's Overtures for Peace) ERSKINE: In the Stockdale Case (abridged) PATRICK HENRY: "Give me GLADSTONE: The Commercial INGERSOLL: Vision of War and AND OTHER SHORTER SELECTIONS A. C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers, Chicago and THE BEST TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE With a series of Critical Introductions and a new Biographical and Critical Study by Sherwin Cody, and photogravure portraits printed on thin Bible paper. 18mo, Vol. I, 480 pages; Vol. II, 476 pages; each $1.00 net; delivered, $1.08. Poe is America's greatest literary artist, and Mr. Cody has collected his critical analyses of his art into a volume which is one of the most practical text-books on creative composition to be found in modern literature. to be The biographical study is complete enough to form a volume in itself. It is based on documents, and critics seem to agree that it is as fair, temperate, and judicious a study of Poe's life and character as has ever been made. Everything of Poe's that is at all worth reprinting found in these two volumes, which are truly surprising in the amount of matter they contain. The series of essay-like introductory studies makes it desirable that these volumes be placed beside Poe's complete works in every library, public and private, and many will prefer them to any of the complete editions. Mr. BLISS PERRY, Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, says: "It seems to me that you have done a real service to literature by this classification and arrangement of Poe's work, fortified by your own careful and suggestive analysis of the methods of his literary art. It was a piece of work well worth doing, and I think you have done it uncommonly well." "In the volume containing what the editor considers to be Poe's best poems and essays he has attempted four things: to offer a new statement of the facts concerning the author's life; to give the poems which he believes Poe himself would have wished preserved; to gather from his ephemeral reviews those detached portions which contain his analysis of literary processes and preserves for us the analytic side of one of the greatest creative literary thinkers; and finally to detach from Poe's "tales" the so-called celestial stories and use them to introduce a new and condensed version of the great prose poem, "Eureka," which, although artistically imperfect, is superbly grand in conception and full of beauties which the world should be loth to lose."-Boston Transcript. "Mr. Cody has rendered a valuable service to students and teachers of literature in collecting the best critical essays and book reviews of Poe from many sources and placing them in connection with his poems. The volume of tales shows good Judgment in the selection of material, and contains all the most famous of the stories. Particular care has been taken to restore the original text, which has been much altered by previous editors."-The World To-day. "Any one who wishes to know the best of Poe, and to be introduced to the sources of his charm, would have no better companion and guide than these two volumes."-London Times. "One of the fairest, most temperate, and judicious biographies of Poe ever written." - Chicago Tribune. A. C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers, Chicago |