153 Jane Eyre is governess to Mr Rochester's daughter, Adele. She describes how he cross-questioned her with regard to her accomplishments. 157 Thoreau lived for two years in a small hut which he built for himself in a wood near Concord, in New England. This extract is from the account he wrote of his life there. 171 Stevenson came of a family of engineers, and he himself was supposed to be preparing for the same profession. But he already wished to be a writer, and his interest in the harbour-works at Wick, in Caithness, which he had been sent to study, was romantic rather than practical. End of Project Gutenberg's A Book of English Prose, by Percy Lubbock