On Decrease of Predication 



Author 



Work 



Hume History of England 



Johnson Lives of Poets 



Pa u 1 Covin thians 



White Natural History of Selborne 



Carlyle Essays 



Bacon Essays 



Browning Introductory Essay 



Mandeville Voyages and Travels 



Franklin Autobiography 



Holland Plain Talks 



Stevenson Memories and Portraits 



Newman Apologia 



Goldsmith Bee, Citizen of the World 



Hunger Aj^peal to Life 



George Prog, and Pov. Land Ques. 



Browning (?) Life of Strafford 



Choate Addresses and Orations 



Thoreau Walden 



Hamerton Intel. Life, Painter''s Camp 



Higginson Women and Men 



Arnold Essays 



Shakespeare W. Tale, Cmyb., Ham. 



Pater Appreciations 



Fiske Idea of God 



Darwin Descent of Man 



Shaftsbury Freedom of Wit and Humor 



Disraeli Curiosities of Literature 



Greeley American Conflict 



Lowell Lessing 



Junius Letters 



Shelley Essay on Christianity 



Phillips War for Union and Cabinet 



Channing Lenox, Napoleon, Milton 



James French Poets and Novelists 



Forum, March 1893 



Grant Memoir's 



Geikie Life of Christ 



Everett Poetry, Comedy and Duty 



Blaine Twenty Years of Congress 



Emerson Essays 



Macaulay Essays 



Bartol Radical Prohlevis 



Phelps My Study 



Symouds The Greek Poets 



Number 

 periods 



500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 139 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 650 

 500 

 500 

 683 

 500 

 335 

 500 

 2000 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 1000 

 500 

 1438 

 5604 

 1500 

 500 

 500 



Average 

 pred. 



3.29 

 3.23 

 3.22 

 3.15 

 3.12 

 3.12 

 3.12 

 3.08 

 3.04 

 3.03 

 3.01 

 2.97 

 2.95 

 2.93 

 2.92 

 2.91 

 2.88 

 2.86 

 2.85 

 2.85 

 2.77 ■ 

 2.76 

 2.74 

 2.69 

 2.64 

 2.61 

 2.57 

 2.56 

 2.54 

 2.54 

 2.48 

 2.47 

 2.47 

 2.45 

 2.42 

 .2.34 

 2.34 

 2.27 

 2! 23 

 2.23 

 2.17 

 2.10 

 2.03 

 1.84 



Simple Clauses 

 sentences saved 



12 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 18 

 19 

 23 

 22 

 19 

 21 

 24 

 16 

 18 

 26 

 23 

 25 

 .30 

 25 

 20 

 21 

 20 

 31 

 26 

 20 

 21 

 28 

 27 

 26 

 23 

 26 

 26 

 33 

 34 

 24 

 32 

 31 

 32 

 32 

 29 

 41 

 36 

 44 

 50 

 58 



14.71 

 7.09 

 4.80 



11.88 

 7.08 

 2.87 



12.80 

 .30 



10.27 

 3.76 

 8.41 

 4.50 

 6.35 

 6.32 

 6.19 

 7.14 

 7.48 

 8.62 

 5.87 

 6.31 

 4.51 

 4.46 



13.74 

 5.87 



11.15 

 4.02 

 7.,34 



17.04 

 4.76 

 6.13 

 8.27 

 6.85 

 6.55 

 5.76 



13.59 

 8.93 



10.84 

 3.31 



11.71 

 3.01 

 5.06 

 7.60 

 5.58 



10.00 



Donne Poems 

 Milton Paradise Lost 

 Lowell Poems 

 Byron Childe Harold 

 Spenser Faerie Queene 

 Milton Paradise Regained 

 Hood Poems 



500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 

 500 



6.29 

 5.68 

 5.48 

 5.20 

 4.93 

 4.88 

 4.82 



11 

 16 

 6 

 12 

 10 



4.81 



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7.76 

 11.15 

 10.30 

 13.68 



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