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Title: Modern American Prose Selections

Author: Various

Editor: Byron Johnson Rees

Release Date: November 8, 2006 [EBook #19739]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes: In the Woodrow Wilson selection, the word 'altrusion'
was changed to 'altruism' based on consultation with the original text from
which the passage was taken for this book.

In the Jacob Riis selection, the phrase "It it none too fine yet" was
replaced with "It is none too fine yet" after consultation with the
original text from which the passage was taken for this book.

Other minor typos were also corrected. Hyphenation was left consistent
with how it appears in the book.
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MODERN
AMERICAN PROSE
SELECTIONS

EDITED BY

BYRON JOHNSON REES
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920

THE PLIMPTON PRESS
NORWOOD MASS U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi

_Abraham Lincoln_ Theodore Roosevelt 3

_American Tradition_ Franklin K. Lane 8

_America's Heritage_ Franklin K. Lane 17

_Address at the College of the Holy
Cross_ Calvin Coolidge 25

_Our Future Immigratio