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5. Do you find any figures? Are these mainly ornamental or 



do they reenforce the thought? 



6. Are there many allusions and quotations? Can you easily 



recognize the source? 



7. Pater says in his essay on Style that the literary artist 



"begets a vocabulary faithful to the colouring of his 

 own spirit, and in the strictest sense original." Do you 

 find that Huxley's vocabulary suggests the man? 



8. Does Huxley seem to search for " the smooth, or win- 



some, or forcible word, as such, or quite simply and 

 honestly, for the word's adjustment to its meaning"? 



9. Make out a list of the words and proper names in any 



given essay which are not familiar to you ; write out 

 the explanation of these in the form of notes giving 

 any information which is interesting and relevant. 

 D. General questions on style. 



1. How is Huxley's style adapted to the subject-matter? 



2. Can you explain the difference in style of the different 



essays by the difference in purpose? 



3. Compare Huxley's way of saying things with some other 



author's way of saying things. 



4. Huxley says of his essays to workingmen, " I only wish 



I had had the sense to anticipate the run these have 

 had here and abroad, and I would have revised them 

 properly. As they stand they are terribly in the rough, 

 from a literary point of view." 

 Do you find evidences of roughness? 



