the Publishers will mail a copy of either of them, post-paid, to any
teacher or school officer remitting one-half of its price.

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ADVANCED COURSE OF

Composition and Rhetoric.

A SERIES OF PRACTICAL LESSONS ON THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PECULIARITIES
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PUNCTUATION, TASTE, THE PLEASURES OF THE
IMAGINATION, FIGURES, STYLE AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES, CRITICISM,
AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION.
ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

BY G. P. QUACKENBOS, A. M.

12mo. 450 pages. Price $1 25.

This work is an eminently clear and practical text-book, and embraces a
variety of important subjects, which have a common connection, and mutually
illustrate each other; but which the pupil has heretofore been obliged to
leave unlearned, or to search for among a number of different volumes.
Claiming to give a comprehensive and practical view of our language in all
its relations, this "Advanced Course" views it as a whole, no less than
with reference to the individual words composing it; shows how it compares
with other tongues; points out its beauties; indicates how they may best be
made available; and, in a word, teaches the student the most philosophical
method of digesting his thoughts, as well as the most effective mode of
expressing them.

It teaches Rhetoric not merely theoretically, like the old textbooks, but
_practically_, illustrating every point with exercises to be prepared by
the student, which at once test his familiarity with the principles laid
down, and impress them on his mind so vividly that they can never be
effaced.

Hon. A. CONSTANTINE BARRY, State Superintendent of the Common Schools of
Wisconsin, in a Report to the Legislature of that State, uses the following
strong language in relation to QUACKENBOS'S works on Composition:

"It would be difficult to point out in these admirable books any thing
that we would desire to have altered; they meet our wants in every
respect, making no unreasonable draft on the time or patience of the
teacher, and leaving him no excuse for neglecting to make composition a
regular study, even with his younger classes. It is unnecessary to
compare these books with others on the subject, for THERE ARE NONE THAT
APPROACH THEM in clearness, comprehensiveness, excellence of
arrangement, and above all, in direct practical bearing. Affordi