Title; Contents; PART I; I The Principle of Economy; II Economy in the Use of Words; III The Principle of Economy Applied to Sentences; IV The Principle of Economy Applied to Figures; V Suggestion as a Means of Economy; VI The Effect of Poetry Explained; PART II; I The Law of Mental Exhaustion and Repair; II Explanation of Climax, Antithesis, and Anticlimax; III Need of Variety; IV The Ideal Writer.