Live and Learn; or, One Thousand Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation, Corrected and Explained. There are hundreds of persons who are sensible of their deficiencies on many points connected with the Grammar of their own tongue, and who, by self-tuition, may correct such deficiencies.
- It Corrects and Explains 1,000 Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation.
- It Explains the many Perplexing points that occasion difficulty to the student.
- It explains most of the Latin and French words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers.
- It shows how to punctuate and paragraph correctly.
- It shows all the current improprieties of expression and gives rules for their correction.
- It gives clear rules for the use of Capitals and Italics.
- It gives plain, general rules for spelling.
- It gives detailed instructions for writing for the Press in the various departments of newspaper and general literature.
213 pages, paper | 30 cts. |
Bound in boards | 50 cts. |
Walker's Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. To which is added critical and practical Observations on Orthography, Syllabication, Pronunciation, an Index of Allowable Rhymes, with Authorities for their usage, etc.
Royal 12mo, 700 pages | $3.00 |
How to Write a Composition. The use of this book will save the student the many hours of labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different subjects, with their divisions clearly defined, and each heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests; so that all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition is to enlarge on them to suit his taste.
178 pages, paper | 30 cts. |
Bound in boards | 50 cts. |
The Poet's Companion. A Dictionary of all Allowable Rhymes in the English Language. This gives the Perfect, the Imperfect and Allowable Rhymes, and will enable you to ascertain to a certainty whether any word can be mated. It is invaluable to any one who desires to court the Muses, and is used by some of the best writers.
Mind Your Stops. Punctuation made plain, and Composition simplified for Readers, Writers and talkers.
Thimm's French Self-Taught. A new system on the most simple principles, for universal Self-Tuition, with English pronunciation of every word. By this system the acquirement of the French Language is rendered less laborious and more thorough than by any of the old methods. By Franz Thimm.
Thimm's German Self-Taught. Uniform with "French Self-Taught," and arranged in accordance with the same principles of thoroughness and simplicity. By Franz Thimm.
Thimm's Spanish Self-Taught. A book of self-instruction in the Spanish Language, arranged according to the same method as the "French" and "German," by the same author, and uniform with them in size. By Franz Thimm.
Thimm's Italian Self-Taught. Uniform in style and size with the three foregoing books. By Franz Thimm.