Representative essays on The Theory of Style is book about the style in English Language chosen and edited by William T. Brewster, A.M, who was at that time (1905), adjunct professor of English in Barnard College, Columbia University and was published by The MacMillan Company In New York, London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. in 1905.
It wasn’t Archie’s fault really. It’s true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her–well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels.
