We have the authority of the late Dr. Hart as to the genuineness of the following extracts, taken from the papers of a class seeking admission into a high-school, to which had been given a list of words for their meanings and applications:

   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 Orthoëpist:

     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

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