h, "to use the right word in the right place,"
is one which no one should despise. The accomplishment is a rare
one, and many of the hints here given are truly admirable.

_From the Southern Review._

The study of Language can never be exhausted. Every time it is
looked at by a man of real ability and culture, some new phase
starts into view. The origin of Language; its relations to the
mind; its history; its laws; its development; its struggles; its
triumphs; its devices; its puzzles; its ethics,--every thing
about it is full of interest.

Here is a delightful book, by two men of recognized
authority,--the head Master of London School, and the Professor
of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, the notable
author of "Ecce Homo." The book is so comprehensive in its scope
that it seems almost miscellaneous. It treats of the vocabulary
of the English Language; Diction as appropriate to this or that
sort of composition; selection and arguments of topics; Metre,
and an Appendix on Logic. All this in less than three hundred
pages. Within this space so many subjects cannot be treated
exhaustively; and no one is, unless we may except Metre, to which
about eighty pages are devoted, and about which all seems to be
said that is worth saying,--possibly more. But on each topic some
of the best things are said in a very stimulating way. The
student will desire to study more thoroughly the subject into
which such pleasant openings are here given; and the best
prepared teacher will be thankful for the number of striking
illustrations gathered up to his hand.

The abundance and freshness of the quotations makes the volume
very attractive reading, without reference to its didactic value.

_Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, postpaid, by the Publishers_,

ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.

PREFACE.

This book is not intended to supply the place of an English Grammar.
It presupposes a knowledge of Grammar and of English idiom in its
readers, and does not address itself to foreigners, but to those who,
having already a familiar knowledge of English, need help to write it
with taste and exactness. Some degree of knowledge is presumed in the
reader; nevertheless we do not presume that he possesses so much as to
render him incapable of profiting from _lessons_. Our object is, if
possible, not