The book is valuable to the learner, and the scholar, as well, and it cannot fail to attract the attention of students of the English language, and it merits the commendation of all competent judges.—Journal of Education (Boston).
If the author’s name were on the title-page of his book we would know whom to thank for the best and most sensible work on this subject that has yet been published.
The student of this book, if he masters its teachings, will not fall into the absurdities and obscurities of mechanical punctuation on the one hand, or of slovenly punctuation on the other, but will punctuate in such a way as to make his meaning clear—which is one essential art in good writing.
“Why We Punctuate” should be in the hands of every newspaper man and author, and it ought to become a text-book in advanced schools.—Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N. Y.).