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Intrinsic--Not trinsic: weak, feeble: He was a very intrinsic old man. Subservient--One opposed to the upholding of servants. Don't: _A Manual of Mistakes and Improprieties more or less prevalent in Conduct and Speech._ "I'll view the manners of the town."--_Comedy of Errors._ _By CENSOR._ Square 16mo. Parchment paper. Price, 30 cents. English as She is Spoke; _Or, A Jest in Sober Earnest._ Compiled from the celebrated "_New Guide of Conversation in Portuguese and English_." "Excruciatingly funny."--_London World._ "Every one who loves a laugh should either buy, beg, borrow, or--we had almost said steal--the book."--_London Fun._ Square 16mo. Parchment-paper cover. Price, 30 cents. _Write and Speak Correctly._ The Orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Three Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. By ALFRED AYRES. Fourteenth edition. 18mo, cloth, extra. Price, $1.00. "It gives us pleasure to say that we think the author in the treatment of this very difficult and intricate subject, English pronunciation, gives proof of not only an unusual degree of orthoepical knowledge, but also, for the most part, of rare judgment and taste."--JOSEPH THOMAS, LL. D., in _Literary World_. The Verbalist: A Manual devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words, and to some other Matters of Interest to those who would Speak and Write with Propriety, including a Treatise on Punctuation. By ALFRED AYRES, author of "The Orthoepist." Ninth edition. 18mo, cloth, extra. Price, $1.00. "We remain shackled by timidity till we have learned to speak with propriety."--JOHNSON. Errors in the Use of English. By the late WILLIAM B. HODGSON, LL. D., Professor of Political Economy in the University of Edinburgh. American revised edition. 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50. "The most comprehensive and useful of the many books designed to promote correctness in English composition by furnishing examples of inaccuracy, is the volume compiled by the late William B. Hodgson, under the title of 'Errors in the Use of English.' The American edition of this treatise, now published by the Appletons, has been revised, and in many respects
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