A Book About Words

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G. F. GRAHAM,
AUTHOR OF ‘ENGLISH, OR THE ART OF COMPOSITION,’ ‘ENGLISH SYNONYMES,’ ‘ENGLISH STYLE,’ ‘ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE,’ ETC.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1869.
The increased attention lately paid to our Language as a subject of Education, has induced the Author to state in the following pages his views on English (and other) Words. These views are the result of a long professional career in tuition, together with the study which such a calling naturally involves.
Notwithstanding the rapid strides made of late years in the science of Words, much still remains unknown to the general reader; but if the following remarks be accepted as a small contribution to a more extended knowledge of this interesting subject, the Author will be amply compensated for any trouble it may have cost him to collect them.
Kensington: May, 1869 .