Table of Contents for Modern Essays, Selected by Christopher Morley
As a norm, the five exercises on "unusual clauses" include a slie, a verb as antecedent, a "who" slide, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, and a parenthetical clause.
1. “American Literature,” by John Macy 2. “Mary White,” by William Allen White 3. “Niagara Falls,” by Rupert Brooke 4. “The Almost Perfect State,” by Don Marquis 5. “The Man-o’-War’s ’Er ’Usband,” by David W. Bone 6. “The Market,” by William McFee 7. “Holy Ireland,” by Joyce Kilmer 8. “A Familiar Preface,” by Joseph Conrad 9. “On Drawing,” by A. P. Herbert 10. “O. Henry,” by O. W. Firkins 11. “The Mowing of a Field,” by Hilaire Belloc 12. “The Student Life,” by William Osler 13. “The Decline of the Drama,” by Stephen Leacock 14. “America and the English Tradition,” by Harry Morgan Ayres 15. “The Russian Quarter,” by Thomas Burke 16. “A Word for Autumn,” by A. A. Milne 17. “A Clergyman,” by Max Beerbohm 18. “Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians,” by Stuart P. Sherman 19. “Bed-Books and Night-Lights,” by H. M. Tomlinson 20. “The Precept of Peace,” by Louise Imogen Guiney 21. “On Lying Awake at Night,” by Stewart Edward White 22. “A Woodland Valentine,” by Marian Storm 23. “The Elements of Poetry,” by George Santayana 24. “Nocturne,” by Simeon Strunsky 25. “Beer and Cider,” by George Saintsbury 26. “A Free Man’s Worship,” by Bertrand Russell 27. “Some Historians,” by Philip Guedalla 28. “Winter Mist,” by Robert Palfrey Utter 29. “Trivia,” by Logan Pearsall Smith 30. “Beyond Life,” by James Branch Cabell 31. “The Fish Reporter,” by Robert Cortes Holliday 32. “Some Nonsense About a Dog,” by Harry Esty Dounce 33. “The Fifty-First Dragon,” by Heywood Broun |