This work, which is specially adapted for self-instruction, is a complete treatise on the study of English style, closing with an historical sketch of our language, in which specimens of its condition are given from the earliest to the present time.
ENGLISH SYNONYMES Classified and Explained: with Practical Exercises, designed for Schools and Private Tuition. Fourth Edition, revised, fcp. 8vo. 6s.
This work was written with a view to supply what the Author believed to be a desideratum in elementary education. ‘The great source of a loose style,’ says Dr. Blair, in his ‘Lectures upon the English Language,’ ‘is the injudicious use of synonymous terms.’ For one fault in construction or idiom, at least twenty incorrect applications of words will be found in the periodical and light literature of the day. The want of a critical knowledge of verbal
distinctions is obviously the cause of these errors. The Author is far from considering this work as complete, but he hopes it will be found to contain principles sufficiently suggestive to enable those who use it to continue the study to any extent for themselves. In this edition, the work has undergone a thorough revision, the number of Synonymes in Section IV. has been considerably increased, and a General Index has been added.
FIRST STEPS to LATIN WRITING; intended as a Practical Illustration of the Latin Accidence. To which are added, Examples on the Principal Rules of Syntax. Second Edition, much enlarged and improved, 12mo. 4s.
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[SEPTEMBER 1868.]