Volume 1 — LANGUAGE.
Reading edition
SOME COMMON ERRORS OF SPEECH.
Suggestions for the Avoiding of Certain Classes of Errors, together with Examples of Bad and of Good Usage. By Alfred G. Compton, Professor in College of the City of New York. 12° $ .75
"The book calls up many interesting, not to say fascinating, lapses from strict grammar, and is very valuable. In its index expurgatorius will be found many surprises by the self-supposed learned."—Chicago Times-Herald.
A SIMPLE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH NOW IN USE.
By John Earle, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford, author of "English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage." 12° $1.50
"The book is a clear, careful, and scholarly treatise on the English Language and its use, rather than a work of science. It is a book that will be valuable to teachers and to students of language everywhere."—Washington Times.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
An Historical Study of the Sources, Development, and Analogies of the Language, and of the Principles Covering its Usages. Illustrated by Copious Examples by Writers of all Periods. By Samuel Ramsey. 8° $2.00
"Mr. Ramsey's work will appeal especially to those that desire to know something more about the history and philology, the growth and mistakes of their native tongue than is given in the ordinary text-books."—Baltimore Sun.
ORTHOMETRY.
A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of Poetry, with a New and Complete Rhyming Dictionary. By R. F. Brewer, B.A. 12°, pp. xv. + 376 $2.00
"It is a good book for its purpose, lucid, compact, and well arranged. It lays bare, we believe, the complete anatomy of poetry. It affords interesting quotations, in the way of example, and interesting comments by distinguished critics upon certain passages from the distinguished poets."—N. Y. Sun.
MANUAL OF LINGUISTICS.
An Account of General and English Phonology. By John Clark, A.M. 8°, pp. lxiii. + 314 $2.00
"Mr. Clark has traced the English language back to its foundations in his work 'Manual of Linguistics.' It is an interesting theme, and his book will prove very useful for reference, for he has culled from many sources and gone over a wide territory."—Detroit Free Press.
COMPOSITION IN THE SCHOOL-ROOM.
A Practical Treatise. By E. Galbraith. 16°, cloth $1.00
"The author has drawn fully from the best writers on the subject, and her book is an epitome of the best thought of all."—Boston Transcript.