Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A School Manual: Prepared for the Use of His Pupils
As little book has been written expressly and solely for you, The difficulty of obtaining any clear and concise rules for punc tuation, and the want of uniformity in those given by difi'erent grammarians, first led me to prepare some for my own pupils, which were printed in 1855; and an experience of twelve years in using them has confirmed my views of their usefulness. The small edition then printed has been exhausted, and I reprint the book for your use, having entirely rewritten the rules, and added to the number of the solecisms. The article on capital letters has been greatly enlarged, and I hope some new light has been thrown on a subject which is a perpetual puzzle to the youthful learner, and a matter of no small difficulty to persons of mature thought. I have also added various matters to the book which I have found useful in school, some of which, printed on separate sheets, you have been accustomed to use. The poems for recitation are to guide the inexperienced, but not to prevent other selections by you; and the course of reading may be found useful by those who have no experienced director. I have repeatedly tried it with classes, and with the best results. Constantly applied to for advice on the subject of reading, I have prepared this list of books with some care; and, to prevent it from becoming too extensive, chapters only have been taken out of many important works. One great object has been to select such books only as you will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
