might form too low an estimate of the worth of a writer when their attention was called only to the blemishes of his style, and (2) the sentences are not always quoted at length, words that have nothing to do with the fault under consideration being omitted.

(3) Some of the sentences given have been constructed or adapted for this book; many have been selected in the course of my own reading, and some have been borrowed from Lindley Murray's 'Grammar,' and from Hodgson's 'Errors in the Use of English' (a most interesting collection of examples).

(y) Perhaps this is the most fitting place to say how much I am indebted also to

Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres,

Whately's Rhetoric,

Bain's Rhetoric and Composition,

Alford's Queen's English,

Abbott's How to Write clearly, and

Cobbett's Grammar.

(8) The Exercises in Part II. should be alternated with Exercises in Composition. A list of subjects for composition is given at the end of the book.

(e) Some of the Exercises are set rather for warning than for working. It would not be reasonable to expect a student to go through those, for example, on foreign and on technical words; the attempt to re-write a very few of the sentences ought to be enough to show the grossness of the faults exhibited.

(C) By adopting a series of significant marks, and making the pupils enter them at the beginning of each note-book, teachers can save much time in the correction of exercises in composition. The following marks are suggested:

Words mis-spelled. Draw a vertical line through the wrong letter.
Words omitted. A caret.
Words misplaced.

Superfluous words.

Enclose in an ellipse.

Enclose in square brackets. Slipshod sentences. Cross in margin.

The corrections should be made with ink or pencil of a different colour from that used for the exercise.

14. The full treatment of synonyms would require a book to itself; here only the method of treatment can be indicated. Teachers who wish to pursue the subject further are recommended to procure Davidson's 'English Words Explained' (Longmans).

(15.) It would be well to work the greater part of this Exercise orally.