Amazon.com description: Product Description: MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES IN PROSE Compiled by GRENVILLE KLEISER TO THE STUDENT IT is generally recognized that clear and accurate thinking must precede clear and accurate expression. The selections presented here have a double value for the student. First, as examples of clear and forceful thinking second, as specimens of good English. The student of English should be a general reader of the recognized stylists. These extracts should stimulate his interest in the larger works of such writers as Addison, Carlyle, Macaulay and Newman. Webster should be closely studied as a master of English style, with special regard to the needs of the public speaker. The chapter entitled Speech and Thought, from Lotzes famous work, Microeosmus is particularly commended to the students attention, and is reprinted here by special permission of the publishers. CONTENTS SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY By Joseph Addison 1672-1719 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE By Daniel Webster 1782-1852 WILLIAM PITT By Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 THE ATHENIAN ORATORS By Thomas Babington Maeaulay 1800-1859 By John Henry Newman 1801-1890 SPEECH AND THOUGHT By Endolf Hermann Lotze 1817-1881