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Excerpt from The Writer's Art: By Those Who Have Practiced It The underlying idea of this volume originated several years ago in a period of very pleasant collab oration with Professor N. W. Barnes, now of the University of Chicago. In 1911 - 12 when we were completing The Art of Writing English we decided to publish, as a companion volume to the college text book, a book of prose readings made up of what writers themselves had said about writing. Before we had brought the material together, however, my own interests drew me to another task, and Pro fessor Barnes was called to a special field where matters of immediate import have ever since claimed his attention. Recently when I turned to the volume to bring it to completion, I found that in certain respects I had departed from our original purpose. I wish, nevertheless, to make grateful acknowledgment of all that Professor Barnes con tributed, and to express my appreciation of the eager sympathy with which he has followed the book into its present form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.