Books by PROF. RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN of Leland Stanford Junior University The Art of Debate A practical manual of argumentation and debating, sufficiently systematic to be serviceable as a text-book. Legal argument is taken as a means of approach to the treatment of such matters as burden of proof and evidence; and the classification of methods of proof is based on the exigencies of actual debate. Prof. E. N. Scott, University of Michigan: "It is a fresh and interesting treatment of the subject, packed with ideas expressed in a most delightful and taking away. English Verse WITH SPECIMENS ILLUSTRATING ITS PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY xiv+459 pp. 12mo. $1.25 net. Bliss Perry, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly: "It is a skillfully planned and admirably compact handbook. I know of no treatise on versification which is so well adapted for practical use in the classroom." Introduction to Poetry xvi+371 pp. 12mo. $1.25 net. A discussion of the theory of poetry, treating the various classes of poems separately, problems of the inner nature of poetry and the technical metric subdivisions. NEW YORK Henry Holt and Company CHICAGO |