so. g.

NOTE.

THESE lectures were given at the Lowell Institu Boston, in November and December, 1890. A student of the subject will at once perceive my oblig tion to the textbooks of Professor A. S. Hill, P fessor Bain, Professor Genung, and the late Profess McElroy. My excuse for offering a new treatment the subject is that I have found none that seem quite simple enough for popular reading.

B.

Inquiries concerning the use of this book in teaching 1 me to add this statement of how I have used it at Harv College.

In the course where I regularly use it as a text-book, co positions, called themes, of from five hundred to a thousa words, are written every fortnight. On the introductory ch ter, which I direct the class to read at once, I do not forma examine the students at all; but I expect them to have r it intelligently before writing the first theme. Between first theme and the second, I direct them to read the chap on Words, the suggestions in which they are advised parti larly to consider in writing the second theme. When t theme is handed in, each student takes the theme of a fell student and devotes an hour to making, in the class-room written analysis of its vocabulary. In this work he is guid by the following plan, sketched on a blackboard:

WORDS: 1. Grammatical Purity: a. Barbarism.
b. Impropriety.

2. Kinds of Words: a. Latin or Saxon.