EBOOK MODERN PROSE AND POETRY ***
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MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
EDITED
WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS
BY
MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A.
_Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin_
_Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools_
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_All selections in this book are used by special permission of, and
arrangement with, the owners of the copyrights._
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
U.S.A
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Transcribers Note: There are several areas where a pronunciation guide
is given with diacritical marks that cannot be reproduced in a text
file. The following symbols are used:
Symbols for Diacritical Marks:
DIACRITICAL MARK SAMPLE ABOVE BELOW
macron (straight line) - [=x] [x=]
2 dots (diaresis, umlaut) " [:x] [x:]
1 dot {~BULLET~} [.x] [x.]
grave accent ` [`x] or [\x] [x`] or [x\]
acute accent (aigu) ' ['x] or [/x] [x'] or [x/]
circumflex ^ [^x] [x^]
caron (v-shaped symbol) [vx] [xv]
breve (u-shaped symbol) [)x] [x)]
tilde ~ [~x] [x~]
cedilla ? [,x] [x,]
Also words italicized will have undescores _ before and after them and
bold words will have = before and after them.
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