cluded to show that from the earliest times the commercial spirit has been important in English literature. The editor has attempted to give a brief review of English and American Literature from the point of view of the business man. He hopes that this book will be a guide to further reading and will indicate to the business man that even from the most poetic and seemingly uncommercial authors he can gain something of interest and value. Even in the selections from the older writers many ideas may stimulate the reader to some constructive thought concerning his daily problems. Acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for their permission to use the copyright material indicated: For "The Romance of a Busy Broker" from The Four Million by O. Henry published by Doubleday, Page & Company; for the selection from Europe and Elsewhere by Mark Twain published by Harper & Brothers; for the selections from Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving published by G. P. Putnam's Sons; for the selection from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson published by Charles Scribner's Sons; for the poems from the Leaves of Grass and the selection from the Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman published by Small, Maynard & Company. The selections from Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Longfellow, Emerson, and Hawthorne are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers. The editor desires to express his appreciation of the encouragement and advice given him by his colleagues, Professors George B. Hotchkiss, and Edward J. Kilduff. Caxton's Original Preface to Malory's Le Morte The Printer to the Gentle Reader' 50 TOBIAS SMOLLETT. A Trading Voyage to South America . Citizen of the World-Letter No. I. |