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...d, along with other items from the Press’s early years, in the cornerstone of the new Press building in 1903. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and by 1906 the pamphlet had become a book: Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago Press, to which are appended specimens of type in use—otherwise known as the 1st ed...

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...The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ruskin e...

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A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.

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...nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any w... ... Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Art of Writ... ... All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the sur- face that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry b... ...nto one. The web, then, or the pattern: a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of ... ... the public prints; and it has been debated, to put the matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise high-minded men, and bring... ... and enterprising gen- eration of writers will follow and surpass the present one; but it would be better if the stream were stayed, and the roll of o... ...ble to handle a brig (which the Hispaniola should have been), but I thought I could make shift to sail her as a schooner with- out public shame. And ... ... again at a rate of a chapter a day, I finished Treasure Island. It had to be transcribed almost exactly; my wife was ill; the schoolboy remained alon... ...st attention. I did not care. I liked the tale myself, for much the same reason as my father liked the beginning: it was my kind of picturesque. I was...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...ation Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...y way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ... ...................................................................... 18 JOHN BARLEYCORN............................................................... .......................................................................... 23 JOHN THE BAPTIST.............................................................. ............................................................. 24 THE SA V AGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS ................................................. ...tes, where the old tradition of the verbal infalli- bility of “the book of books” lingers more strongly than any- where else except perhaps in Ulster,... ...fore the career of Jesus can be fully understood. people who can read long books will find it in Frazer’s Golden Bough. Simpler folk will find it in t... ...in a lifetime of the crucifixion. Also, he must have believed that reading books would be one of the plea- sures of the kingdom of heaven on earth. CL...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- ti... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the Penn- sylva... .........................117 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 Chatto and Windus edition. NOTE THIS VOLUME ... ...R AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically... ...to reflection, ignorance of his neighbours is the character of the typical John Bull. His is a domineering nature, steady in fight, imperious to comma... ...e an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the... ...ountries; perhaps in all, men are most ignorant of the foreigners at home. John Bull is igno- rant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India; bu... ...reat stillness and solitude for the rebellious mind, when in the dearth of books and play, and in the intervals of studying the Shorter Catechism, the... ...ad, with strange extremes of pity and derision, the memorials of the dead. Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human im- port, forcing upon t...

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.... Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 EM Forster Howards End by E. M. Forster ONE MAY AS WELL BEGIN with Helen’s letters to her sis- ter... ...ered it none were his own except the photograph frame, the Cupids, and the books. 48 Howards End “Damn, damn, damnation!” he murmured, together with ... ...k to the sitting-room, settled himself anew, and began to read a volume of Ruskin. “Seven miles to the north of Venice—” How perfectly the famous chap... ...- cepted by narrow creeks of sea.” Leonard was trying to form his style on Ruskin; he understood him to be the greatest master of English Prose. He re... ...aspira- tions, the mental dishonesty, the familiarity with the outsides of books. She knew the very tones in which he would address her. She was only ... ...sorrow. R. L. S. brought up the rear, and the outburst ended in a swamp of books. No disrespect to these great names. The fault is ours, not theirs. T... ...m words to things. It was doubtless a pity not to keep up with Wedekind or John, but some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind...

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Excerpt: A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw.

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...A T reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...her conceivable horror could provoke. With all our perverse nonsense as to John Smith living for a thousand 4 A Treatise on Parents and Children mill... ...cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books writ- ten by the warders and the governor (who of course would not be... ... of course would not be warders and governors if they could write readable books), and beaten or otherwise tormented if you cannot remember their utte... ...isoners. In a school you have none of these advan- tages. With the world’s bookshelves loaded with fascinating and inspired books, the very manna sent... ... to fiendish outbursts of wrath. No wonder men of downright sense, like Dr Johnson, admit that under such circumstances children will not learn anythi... ...ly beaten at school? No; but then I did not learn any- thing at school. Dr Johnson’s schoolmaster presumably did care enough whether Sam learned anyth...

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...le of Contents: How to Contact Best of Four You can contac Best of Four by writing to Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Best of Four , Pennsylvania State... ...nia State University. All the student essays contained herein were prodced by students registered in English 004 on the Hazleton Campus during the Fal... ...tion courses throughout the Commonwealth College. Stay tuned for an update by viewing our Web site at http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/bof.htm. ... ..., David N.; Kenneth G. Tillman. Teaching and Coaching Wrestling. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1968. Umbach, Arnold; Warren R. Johnson. Wrestli... ...ilities in order to make their educational experience a more positive one (Ruskin). The Hazleton Campus Student Relations Committee should take a clos... ...therwise busy and some- times stressful work and family life. Bush Biking John O’Connor 23 T he only place that comes to mind when thinking about a ... ...e consulted these authorities. Accordingly, you should list the journals, books, and web sites you used to gather information even if you did not ci... ...s “required” mean in this case? As a new student, you probably went to the bookstore and purchased your texts for your courses before the first day of... ...he placards identifying the courses and section num bers for the piles of books you were about to purchase. Y ou noticed that some books were identif...

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...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Se... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells MANKIND IN THE MAKING BY H. G. WELLS PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE IT MAY SAVE ... ...end it is that the attention of the reader is especially directed. The two books and the pamphlet to- gether are to be regarded as an essay in present... ... reference to authorities in the chapter on the biological problem, and to books in the educational chapter, the lacunar quality of his reading and kn... ...is wife. Even in rest and recreation life still manifests its quality; the books the ordinary man reads turn enormously on love-making, his theatre ha... ...ost fecundity or the reverse. Mr. Vrooman, who, with Mrs. Vrooman, founded Ruskin Hall at Oxford, writes to much the same effect. He argues that peopl... ... is on the roll of those who have become great in our world. One thinks of John Ruskin, a particularly fine specimen of the highly focussed single son... ...large businesses has raised a portion of this class to the position of Sir John Blundell Maple, Sir Thomas Lipton, the intimate friend of our King, an...

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...er A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 EM Forster A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Chapter I: The Bertolini THE S IGNORA had no business to d... ...e an air balloon.” He was referring to the fresco of the “Ascension of St. John.” Inside, the lecturer’s voice faltered, as well it might. The audienc... ...a clergyman, and his audience must be also his flock, for they held prayer-books as well as guide-books in their hands. They filed out of the chapel i... ...then, and bought Fra Angelico’s “Corona- tion,” Giotto’s “Ascension of St. John,” some Della Robbia babies, and some Guido Reni Madonnas. For her tast... ..., knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thick- ness and size. She gave two or three sighs, for the... ...edged round it with difficulty. The sit- ting-room itself was blocked with books. “Are these people great readers?” Freddy whis- pered. “Are they that... ...w.” Miss Bartlett was in the drawing-room, gazing at the photograph of St. John ascending, which had been framed. “How dreadful!” she murmured, “how m...

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...THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...by a parliamentary body subject to no such limits. A Readable Bluebook Few books of the year 1909 can have been cheaper and more entertaining than the... ...lle Barker, Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. Forbes Robertson, Mr. Cecil Raleigh, Mr. John Galsworthy, Mr. Laurence Housman, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Mr. W. L.... ...a- gious diseases, and nudity are improper, and that all conversations, or books, or plays in which they are discussed are improper conversations, imp... ... or plays in which they are discussed are improper conversations, improper books, improper plays, and should not be allowed. The Censor may prohibit a... ... as it might suit members to put to them, allowed Sir Henry Irving and Sir John Hare to pre- pare and read written statements, and formally in- vited ... ...which has no more political comprehension nor po- litical virtue than King John. When Henry VII. calmly proceeded to tear up Magna Charta by establish...

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...we do not seem to know that there is any other test of conduct except morality; and the result is that the young had better have their souls awakened by disgrace, capture by the police, and a month?s hard labor, than drift along from their cradles to their graves doing what other people do for no other reason than that other people do it, and knowing nothing of good and ev...

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...11 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw FANNY’S FIRST PLAY BY BERNARD SHAW 1911 PREFACE TO FANNY’S FIRST PLAY Fanny’s First Play, bein... ...the sacred footsteps of Byron, of Shelley, of the Brownings, of Turner and Ruskin. Dont you envy me, Mr Savoyard? SAVOYARD. Some of us must live in En... ... I want some to match a collaret of my own; and I cant get it at Perry and John’s. DORA. Knagg and Pantle’s: one and fourpence. It’s machine hand-made... ...no. There is a small table in the middle of the room, with some gilt-edged books and albums on it, and chairs near it. Mr Knox comes in almost furtive... ...aped in its ordinary cloth, with pen and ink, an exercise-book, and school-books on it. Bobby Gilbey is in the arm-chair, crouching over the fire, rea... ..., staring disconsolately straight before him; then goes reluctantly to his books, and sits down to write. Juggins returns. JUGGINS. [announcing] Miss ...

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...th the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?...

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...THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Se... ...es for vigorous education instead of genteel athleticism, and his home has books in it, and thought and conversation. Our homes and schools are relati... ...ic paper of the slightest value. The effort and arrangement needed to make books, facilities for research, and all forms of art accessible throughout ... ... Press, that Australia and New Zealand even now gravi- tate to America for books and thought. It matters nothing to them that the poverty and insulari... ... There exist alternatives, and to these alternatives we must resort. Since John Stuart Mill first called attention to the importance of the matter the... ...fectedly ironi- cal detachment as that which distinguishes the work of Mr. John Galsworthy, for example, can ever attain. And in some cases the whole ... ...appreciating, let us say, the charm and interest of Mr. Sandow or Mr. Jack Johnson or Mr. Harry Lauder or Mr. Evan Roberts without wanting to send the...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania ... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, J... ....... 240 Mark Twain iv 5 Mark Twain THE $30,000 BEQUEST and Other Stories by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) THE $30,000 BEQUEST CHAPTER I LAKESIDE W... ...ohibition. For the rest of the day Sally made havoc and confusion with his books, and Aleck could not keep her mind on her affairs, not even take up a... ... a hundred cents per dollar’s worth, and have the stock transferred on the books. It took but a very few months to educate Aleck’s imagina tion and S... ...ht the hand of no other. Elfonzo was roused from his apparent reverie. His books no longer were his inseparable companions—his thoughts arrayed themse... ...ev eral citizens, who by means of public cab No. 365 trans ported to St. John of God.” Paragraph No. 3 is a little obscure, but I think it says that... ...s country. For he was so regular. Some years later we have the illustrious John Morgan T wain. He came over to this country with Columbus in 1492 as a... ...h. Among these may be mentioned Richard Brinsley T wain, alias Guy Fawkes; John Wentworth Twain, alias Sixteen String Jack; William Hogarth T wain, al...

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...GETTING MARRIED and “Preface to Getting Married” by George Bernard Shaw 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ense that it was his duty as a father to prevent his son enjoying himself. Ruskin’s mother gratified the sensual side of her maternal passion, not by ... ...ngerous than an immoderately bad man: that is why Savonarola was burnt and John of Leyden torn to pieces with red-hot pincers whilst multitudes of unr... ... in adultery which some early free-thinker slipped into the Gos- pel of St John: namely, that we all live in glass houses. We may take it, then, that ... ...od hath joined,” the word God means the district registrar or the Reverend John Smith or William Jones, must be got rid of. Means of breaking up undes... ...y well-stocked mind to be very good company for myself if I have plenty of books and music. The one thing I never could stand is a great lout of a man...

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...The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Th... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...lity, or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and... ... or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and on t... ... labor, are more expensive; they are also less convenient for use than the books turned out with a view to serviceability alone; they therefore argue ... ...c discus- sions in oldstyle type, on laid paper, and with uncut edges. But books which are not ostensibly concerned with the ef- fective presentation ... ... as seen from the point of view of brute serviceability alone — by issuing books for modern use, edited with the obsolete spelling, printed in black-l...