Live and Learn: A Guide for All, who Wish to Speak and Write Correctly

"This little book, particularly intended as a book of reference for the solution of difficulties connected with grammar, composition, and punc tuation, etc., etc., will be found useful by those who have not received a sound elementary education, and who nevertheless move in influential positions."-Leeds Mercury.

"Such a book as this has long been wanted by those who entertain the wish alluded to in the title. It is suitable for all classes. We have attentively conned its pages, and can recommend it as one of the best works of reference for the young student, or even the ripe scholar, and as deserving to be generally consulted. The little work is altogether useful and indispensable.”— Plymouth Mail.

"This work is one of substantial merit, and fitted to be really useful as a guide to all who would speak and write correctly."-Brighton Gazette.

"This work cannot fail of being useful, and those who wish to write and speak grammatically, may study its pages with benefit."—Plymouth Herald.

"We have seen no work of the kind so well done; quite conscientiously can we recommend this little book to the favourable notice of our readers."— Derby Mercury.

66 This is a really valuable little manual, and embodies a mass of instruction and directions which might be in vain looked for in many larger and far more portentous works."-Plymouth Journal.

"We have given the title of this little work at full length, as it explains its nature in very appropriate and intelligible terms, and we would only add, by way of recommendation, of which it is worthy, that it is of a nice handy' size, is well got up in cloth, and is likely to prove extremely useful to people in general, who will take the trouble to consult its pages."-North and South Shields Gazette.

PREFACE.

THE following pages have been written to supply a want, that has long been felt.

There are hundreds of persons, engaged in professional and commercial pursuits, who are sensible of their deficiencies on many points connected with the grammar of their own tongue, and who, by selftuition, are anxious to correct such deficiencies, and to acquire the means of writing and speaking, if not with elegance, at any rate with a due regard to grammatical accuracy.

For such persons this little Volume is more particularly intended, though it is believed that few can peruse it without deriving advantage, and also acquiring some additional knowledge.

It is a conventional, and unfortunately, a widelyspread error, that correctness in speaking and writing comes as a matter of course, and especially when the individual has received what is called " a CLASSICAL education."-A glance at the article on "Instances of False Syntax, Errors, &c. &c. (see page 73) occurring in the writings of authors of eminence," [men educated at the Public Schools and Universities,] will at once prove the fallacy of the idea.

To render the Work more useful, a Key to the " Instances of False Syntax, &c., &c.," is in preparation.

POSTSCRIPT.-It is taken for granted that the purchaser of this little Work has some knowledge of the Principles of grammar, grammatical terms, &c., &c.; but to those, whose knowledge is more limited, the Author would strongly recommend the Reverend Doctor Macculloch's "Manual of English Grammar," a work, which has been highly and deservedly eulogized, and which is, indeed, above all praise.

LONDON: June, 1855.

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