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Nor does the author limit these exercises to selections alone. Criticisms of faulty expressions are required, as well as the construction of sentences, figures, etc., which make a practical application of the principles stated.

Special attention has been given to punctuation and other essentials, because they are the subjects whose principles the student will have occasion to apply most frequently in his own composition.

In Rhetoric proper the subject is discussed logically under the topics Words, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Figurative Language, but it has not been thought necessary to give practice in the construction of simple, complex, and compound sentences, as this is the province of Grammar, and should be completed before the subject of Rhetoric is presented.

The Author lays no claim to recent discoveries in the field of Rhetoric; he has simply tried to arrange the materials at hand in such a manner as to make this treatise interesting and practical as a text-book. Nothing is suggested that has not first been tested in the crucible of class experience. He hopes that teachers will find the work commendable because of its eminently practical character.

NEWARK, DEL.,

July 1, 1887.

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