Exercises in capitalization, 10,
33; in punctuation, 21, 22,
Expression of ideas in the short
theme, 1-116; in business
letters, 119-147; in the long
theme, 151-210.
Familiar Letter, The, 196-203,
210; illustrative letters, 197-
201; subjects for, 202.
Figures of Speech, 190-195, 209.
Foote, Samuel, 164.
Formal Note, The, 140-145, 147.
Franklin, Benjamin, 163.
Gettysburg Address, 154.
Hyphen, The, 255.
Ideal Paragraph, The, 159.
Incident of the French Camp, 68.
Indentation, 4.
Infinitives, classified, 227; in-
flection of, 238; syntax of,
Inflection of the Parts of Speech,
Interjections, 214, 248.
Interrogation Point, 254.
I Stood Tip-Toe, 37.
Irving, Washington, 22, 29, 39,
64, 86, 102, 103, 155, 159, 161,
165, 272.
Metaphor, 190, 191, 210.
Paragraph, The, defined, 151,
152, 208; exercises, 153, 161,
166-8; connecting words be-
tween, 167, 168.
Parentheses, 255.
Participles, 235; syntax of, 247.
Parts of Speech, correctness in
use of, 78-112; defined, 214;
exercises, 215.
Past and Present, 18.
Period, The, 254.
Personification, 190, 210.
Phrases, defined, 212; position
of, 183, 184, 186, 209; exer-
cises, 187; classified, 216.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 52.
Point of View, 204.
Predicate, The, 213.
Preliminaries, 1.
Prepositions, 214, 231; syntax of,
248.
Principal Parts of Verbs, 229.
Pronouns, 101; exercises, 101,
102; inflection of, 232; de-
clension of, 234; syntax of,
245.
Psalms, The, 191.
Punctuation, exercises, 10, 21,
26-28; clearness by use of,
20, 26.
Pupils' Themes, 104, 110, 111,
266-280.
Quotation Marks, 20, 255.
Reverie of Poor Susan, The, 45.
Ruskin, John, 86, 163, 169.
Scott, Sir Walter, 17, 55, 72.
Letters, Business, 119-147; fa- Semi-colon, The, 253.
miliar, 196-203, 210.
Lincoln, Abraham, 154.
Longfellow, Henry W., 12, 64,
Loss of the Royal George, The, 31.
Lucy Gray, 41.
Sentence, The, defined, 6, 9, 213;
length of, 15, 213; exercises in
writing, 16; classified, 215;
analysis of, 250.
s-form of verbs, 78, 79, 80.
Shakspere, Wm.,27, 193.
Simile, 190, 191, 210.
Smith, Sidney, 206.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 26, 65,
87, 162, 173, 199.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 93.
Subject and predicate, 213.
Subjects for Themes, Written,
5, 7, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 40, 44,
49, 54, 62, 67, 76, 81, 88, 94,
99, 105, 111, 129, 132, 136,
138, 139, 145, 157, 166, 174,
178, 182, 185, 189, 194, 202,
281-283. Oral, 8, 12, 18, 24,
31, 37, 40, 45, 49, 55, 62, 67,
76, 82, 88, 94, 99, 106, 112.
Summaries, 113, 146, 147, 208-
210.
Symbols for Correcting, 284.
Synonyms, 46.
Syntax of Parts of Speech, 244-
248.
Taine, H. A., 17, 191.
Tennyson, Alfred, 59, 65, 99.
Test of Unity, 159.
Themes, defined, 2; written by
pupils, 103, 110, 111; the
short theme, 1-116; the long
theme, 151-210.
Things to be avoided, 204–207.
Thoreau, Henry, 60.
Title defined, 3.
To-morrow, 77.
Van Dyke, John C., 155.
Verbs, 78; s-form, 78, 79; exer-
cises, 80, 85, 90; lie, lay,
90, 91, 92; will, shall, 95;
exercises, 96, 214; classified,
225; inflection, 235.
Vocabulary, defined, 12.
Washington, George, 10.
White, Gilbert, 152.
Whittier, John G., 171, 271.
Will or shall, would or should, 95.
Words, correct use of, 38; exer-
cises, 39, 43, 46, 47, 59, 60, 61,
64, 72, 73, 74; synonyms, 46,
48; variety, 52, 53; vividness,
58; specific, 59, 60, 61.
Wordsworth, William, 41, 45, 60.
Wreck of the Hesperus, The, 12.
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