English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them.
      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 orthoëpical 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 Orthoëpist." 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 
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