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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Goldsmith : ' Present State of Polite Learning in Europe. 



Here the results, graphically exhibited in Figs. 12, 13 and 14 are 

 somewhat less satisfactory than in the case of Schiller or Goethe, yet 



Fig. 11. Two 5,000 Word-curves from Schiller. (Table II.) (.4) Prose Drama ' Kabale 

 und Liebe,' (B) History 'Thirty Years' War.' 



even here any one-thousand word-curve of the one work is easily dis- 

 tinguished from all the curves of,,, the other work. The most marked 

 contrast is shown in the relative frequencies of two-, four-, eight-, 

 niDe- and ten-letter words. 



Fig. 12. Five 1,000 Word-curves from Fig. 13. Five 1,000 Word-curves from 



Goldsmith's .'She Stoops to Conquer.' (See Goldsmith's 'Present State of Polite 

 Table III.) Learning in Europe.' (See Table III.) 



On the other hand, Dryden's one-thousand word-curves (Fig. 15 

 and Fig. 16) appear fully as differentiated as any yet examined. Five 

 thousand words each from 'Sir Martin Mar-all' and the 'Essay on 



Satire' give: 



