Principles and Method in the Study of English Literature

by William Macpherson

2015 · Cambridge University Press

First published in 1919, this book was written to provide an accessible guide to the process of studying English literature. The text attempts 'to describe and illustrate methods of study that follow naturally from the logical and psychological principles on which the teaching of English literature should be based'.

The Fleets Behind the Fleet

by William Macneile Dixon

1917 · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

What follows is not written to praise our merchant sailors and fishermen. They are indeed worthy of all praise. But we looked for nothing else than that they would in every circumstance of trial and danger show themselves to be what they are, peerless. At what date or on what occasion in their history have they failed? From a fierier ordeal a firmer courage and a harder resolution have emerged, as we believed it would. Of this the world is already very well aware. Their friends know it and their foes. What remains then is not to praise them but to instruct ourselves. Our vision has been limited. We knew that in the Navy lay our strength, but in our thoughts we defined it as the Royal Navy. Till these troubled years the Merchant Service had for many Englishmen only a shadowy existence. For the first time it has come acutely home to us that "the sea is all one, -the navy is all one."

Cinderella's Garden

by William Macneile Dixon

1927

Several children enter a garden which is inhabited by unusual creatures including Cinderella and the Fairy Queen.