tful if human literary art may
attain completeness more than once. But as our authors labor to embody
truths of human life in arranged imagined facts, they should
constantly be guided and inspired by the allurement of the ultimate
ideal. The noblest work is evermore accomplished by followers of the
gleam. Let us, in parting company, paraphrase the sense of a remark
made centuries ago by Sir Philip Sidney,--that model of a scholar and
a gentleman:--It is well to shoot our arrows at the moon; for though
they may miss their mark, they will yet fly higher than if we had
flung them into a bush.

[9] First published in the _Contemporary Review_ for April, 1885; and
now included in Volume XXII of the "Thistle Edition": Charles
Scribner's Sons.

[10] "Mrs. Knollys" is now easily accessible in "The Short Story:
Specimens Illustrating Its Development." Edited by Brander
Matthews. American Book Company, 1908.

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What is meant by style in literature?

2. Make three patterns of words,--the first notable for sheer
selection, the second notable for rhythm, and the third notable for
literation.

3. Write a theme, containing approximately three hundred words, that
shall be judged for its quality of style.

SUGGESTED READING

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: "On Some Technical Elements of Style in
Literature."

WALTER PATER: "Essay on Style," in "Appreciations."

HERBERT SPENCER: "Philosophy of Style."

INDEX

_Actions and Reactions_, 112, 137.

_Adam Bede_, 20, 33, 116.

Addison, Joseph, xv;
_Sir Roger de Coverley_, xv.

_AEneid, The_, 160, 161, 162.

Alcott, Louisa M., 78;
_Little Women_, 78.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 137;
_Marjorie Daw_, 137.

_Alice in Wonderland_, 18.

_Ambitious Guest, The_, 174.

_American Short Stories_, 174.

Amiel, Henri-Frederic, 9.

Andersen, Hans Christian, 11.

_Angel in the House, The_, 158.

_An Habitation Enforced_, 112.

_Anna Karenina_, xxi.

_Arcadia_, 102.

Archer, William, 8.

Ariosto, Ludovico, 102;
_Orlando Furioso_, 102.

Aristotle, 69, 70.

Arnold, Matthew, 184.

_Assignation, The_, 38.

_As You Like It_, 12.

_At the End of the Passage_, 110.

Aubignac, Abbe d', xviii, xx;
_Pratique du Theatre_, xviii.

_Aurora Leigh_, 158.

Austen, Jane, 7, 21, 29, 90, 130, 131, 221, 222;
_Emma_, 90, 130, 146;
_Pride and Prejudice_, 131, 146.

Bacon, Francis, 34.

Baldwin,