1. Do not give a pupil a rule to learn, unless it is clearly founded upon examples taken from what he himself has written.
2. Take, at first, the simplest, most frequently used, and most readily understood rules.
3. Advance slowly, remembering that a few simple principles clearly understood, are of much more practical benefit than a number of misty rules hastily committed to memory.
In the preparation of this hand-book, the author is under obligations to various authorities, but he is more especially indebted to Wilson’s “Treatise on Punctuation.”
W. J. COCKER.
Adrian, Mich., Dec. 26, 1877.
Table of Contents.
| I. | Punctuation | pp. | [1-53] |
| II. | Capitals | ” | [54-70] |
| III. | Letter-Forms | ” | [71-100] |
| IV. | Proof-Reading | ” | [101-114] |