500 French Phrases, with their English Translations. The phrases here given are all selected for their general usefulness for occasional quotation.
| 10 cts. |
COMPOSITION AND LANGUAGES.
Live and Learn; or, One Thousand Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation, Corrected and Explained. There are hundreds of persons who are sensible of their deficiencies on many points connected with the Grammar of their own tongue, and who, by self-tuition, may correct such deficiencies.
- It Corrects and Explains 1,000 Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation.
- It Explains the many Perplexing points that occasion difficulty to the student.
- It explains most of the Latin and French words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers.
- It shows how to punctuate and paragraph correctly.
- It shows all the current improprieties of expression and gives rules for their correction.
- It gives clear rules for the use of Capitals and Italics.
- It gives plain, general rules for spelling.
- It gives detailed instructions for writing for the Press in the various departments of newspaper and general literature.
| 213 pages, paper | 30 cts. |
| Bound in boards | 50 cts. |
Walker's Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. To which is added critical and practical Observations on Orthography, Syllabication, Pronunciation, an Index of Allowable Rhymes, with Authorities for their usage, etc.
| Royal 12mo, 700 pages | $3.00 |
How to Write a Composition. The use of this book will save the student the many hours of labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different subjects, with their divisions clearly defined, and each heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests; so that all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition is to enlarge on them to suit his taste.
| 178 pages, paper | 30 cts. |
| Bound in boards | 50 cts. |