Talks on Writing English. E-book. Formato PDF Arlo Bates   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This book is made up from material used in a course of lectures given in the Lowell Free Classes as supplementary to my previous Talks on Writ ing English. It takes up many of the more deli cate matters of composition which would have been out of place in the earlier and more general course, but repeats nothing except some few things which were needed to bring out fresh points more clearly. Teachers and others who heard the lectures have asked me to print them, and I do so in the hope that as what I have to say is the result of actual.

The Intoxicated Ghost, and Other Stories. E-book. Formato PDF Arlo Bates   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Although Irene seldom referred to her in heritance, and professed, when she did speak of it, to feel a lively indignation that her aunt Eunice Mariamne should have thrust upon her such a bequest, she was too thoroughly human and feminine to lack wholly a secret pride that she should be distinguished by a gift so unusual. She had too good taste openly to talk of it, yet she had not the firmness entirely to conceal it; and her friends were pretty generally aware of the legacy and of many circumstances resulting from its pos session. Some few of her intimates, indeed, had ventured to employ her good Offices in communicating with family wraiths; and although Irene was averse to anything which savored so strongly of mediumship and other vulgar trades, she could not but be pleased at the excellent results which had followed her mediations in several instances.