© The Macmillan Company 1959 All rights reserved-no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writ- ing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or news- paper. First Printing Library of Congress catalog card number: 59-9950 The Macmillan Company, New York Brett-Macmillan Ltd., Galt, Ontario The Introduction originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, and was copy- righted in 1957 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. The Elements of Style, Revised Edition, by William Strunk Jr. , and Edward A. Tenney, Copyright 1935 by Oliver Strunk. Printed in the United States of America -iv- |