Part 52 (1/2)

Tales of a Traveller--Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Irving

Rip Van Winkle--Irving

Lorna Doone--Blackmore

Uncle William--Lee

The Blue Flower--Van dyke

Non-fiction: Sesame and Lilies--Ruskin

Stones of Venice--Ruskin

The Alish People--Green

Views Afoot--Taylor

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table--Holraphy--Franklin

Lincoln--Douglas Debates

Critical Periods of Alish Towns--Howells

The Declaration of Independence

Bunker Hill Oration--Webster

On Conciliation with A

CHAPTER XII

WORDS--SPELLING--pronUNCIATION

188 To write and to speak good English, onevocabulary He must knoords and be able to use theood use; he must be able to choose words and phrases that accurately express his ; and he must be able to spell and pronounce correctly the words that he uses

WORDS

189 GOOD USE The first essential that a word should have, is that it be in good use A word is in good use when it is used grammatically and in its true sense, and is also:

(1) _Reputable_; in use by good authors and writers in general

The use of a word by one or two good writers is not sufficient to eneral

(2) _National_; not foreign or local in its use

(3) _Present_; used by the writers of one's own tiainst good use are usually said to be of three classes: Solecisms, Barbarisms, and Improprieties