"The rose smells sweet"; "The butter smells good, or bad, or fresh"; "I feel glad, or sad, or bad, or despondent, or annoyed, or nervous"; "This construction sounds harsh"; "How delightful the country appears!"

On the other hand, to look, to feel, to smeli, to sound, and to appear are found in sentences where the qualifying word must be an adverb; thus, “He feels his loss keenly”; "The king looked graciously on her"; "I smell it faintly." We might also say, He feels sad [adjective], because he feels his luss keenly” (adverb); “He appears well” (adverb).

The expression, "She seemed confusedly, or timidly," is not a whit more incorrect than " She looked beautifully, or charmingly." See ADJECTIVES.

Lot Lots. Very inelegantly used for "a great many," "a great deal"; as, "They have lots of enemies," "We have lots of apples," "He had a lot, or lots, of trouble," "She gave us a lot of trouble," etc.

Loud. There are not a few who seem to think that loud can not be used as an adverb. It is quite as correct "Do not talk so loud," as it is to say, "Do not talk in such a loud tone."

to say,

The World of this town (London) has driven some of the American papers in Europe mad by its article on The American Girl, Uncivilized and Civilized. The former type is described as always talking loudly [loud] and [as being] always in haste," etc.-Corr. N. Y. Sun.

It prevents me from hearing you, and you must therefore speak more loudly [louder]."

Love Like. Men that are careful in selecting their words, and have not an undue leaning toward the superlative, love few things-their wives, their sweethearts, their kinsmen, truth, justice, and their country. We like ac

quaintances, horses, flowers, pictures, good things to eat,

and so on.

Lovely. A much-abused word. everything is lovely.

Low-priced. See CHEAP.

With some persons

Luggage Baggage. The former of these words is commonly used in Great Britain, the latter in America.

Lunch. This word, when used as a substantive, may at the best, be accounted an inelegant abbreviation of luncheon. The dictionaries barely recognize it. The proper phraseology to use is, "Have you lunched?" or,

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Have you had your luncheon?" or, better, “Have you had luncheon?" as we may in most cases presuppose that the person addressed would hardly take anybody's else luncheon.

Luxurious—Luxuriant. The line is drawn much more sharply between these two words now than it was formerly. Luxurious was once used, to some extent at least, in the sense of rank growth, but now all careful writers and speakers use it in the sense of indulging in, or delighting in, luxury. We talk of a luxurious table, a luxurious liver, luxurious ease, luxurious freedom. Luxuriant, on the other hand, is restricted to the sense of rank, or excessive, growth or production; thus, luxuriant weeds, luxuriant foliage or branches, luxuriant growth.

"Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine,

But show no mercy to an empty line."--Pope. Mad. Professor Richard A. Proctor, in a recent number of The Gentleman's Magazine, says: "The word mad, in America, seems nearly always to mean angry. For mad, as we use the word, Americans say crazy. Herein they have manifestly impaired the language." Have they?

"Now, in faith, Gratiano,

You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief;
An 'twere to me, I would [should] be mad at it.'
Merchant of Venice.

"And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities."—Acts xxvi, II.

Mad, in the sense of angry, is less used now than formerly, and is least used in this sense by those who are accounted careful speakers. "He was very angry" is certainly preferable to "He was very mad." In this sense mad may be said to be archaic.

Make a visit. We do not make visits; we pay them. "Make a visit," according to Dr. Hall, whatever it once was, is no longer English.

Malaria. This word is not the name of a disease, as many persons seem to think, but of the cause of a disease, or perhaps of diseases. We do not suffer from malaria, but from the effects of malaria, which is a noxious exhalation, usually from marshy districts.

Marry. There has been some discussion, at one time and another, with regard to the use of this word. Is John Jones married to Sally Brown or with Sally Brown, or are they married to each other? Inasmuch as the woman loses her name in that of the man she is wedded to, and becomes a member of his family, not he of hers-inasmuch as, with few exceptions, it is her life that is merged in his-it would seem that, properly, Sally Brown is married to John Jones, and that this would be the proper way to make the announcement of their having been wedded, and not John Jones to Sally Brown.

There is also a difference of opinion as to whether the active or the passive form is preferable in referring to a person's wedded state. In speaking definitely of the act of

marriage the passive form is necessarily used with reference to either spouse. "John Jones was married to Sally Brown on December 1, 1881"; not "John Jones married Sally Brown on such a date, for (unless they were Quakers) some third person married him to her and her to him. But, in speaking definitely of the fact of marriage, the active form is a matter of course. "Whom did John Jones marry?" "He married Sally Brown." "John Jones, when he had sown his wild oats, married [married himself, as the French say] and settled down." Got married is a vulgarism.

May. In the sense of can, may, in a negative clause, has become obsolete. "Though we may say a horse, we may not say a ox." The first may here is permissible; not so, however, the second, which should be can.

Can always conveys the idea of ability; hence, when it is a question of simple permission, may should be used. "May I—not can I—have an apple?"

Meat. At the table we ask for and offer beef, mutton, veal, steak, turkey, duck, etc., and do not ask for nor offer meat, which, to say the least, is very inelegant. "Will you have [not take] another piece of beef [not of the beef]?" "Will you have another piece of meat?" Memorandum.

not,

The plural is memoranda, except when the singular means a book; then the plural is memorandum's.

Mere. This word is not infrequently misplaced, and sometimes, as in the following sentence, in consequence of being misplaced, it is changed to an adverb: "It is true of men as of God, that words merely meet with no response." What the writer evidently intended to say is, that mere words meet with no response.

The diction of none but painstakers is ever good.

Merely. Sometimes misused for simply. Merely means only, solely; as, "We went merely (not simply) out of curiosity." "What you tell me is simply astounding."

Metaphor. An implied comparison is called a metaphor; it is a more terse form of expression than the simile. Take, for example, this sentence from Spencer's Philosophy of Style: "As, in passing through the crystal, beams of white light are decomposed into the colors of the rainbow, so, in traversing the soul of the poet, the colorless rays of truth are transformed into brightly tinted poetry.” Expressed in metaphors, this becomes: "The white light of truth, in traversing the many-sided, transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry."

Worcester's definition of a metaphor is: A figure of speech founded on the resemblance which [that] one object is supposed to bear, in some respect, to another, or a figure by which a word is transferred from a subject to which it properly belongs to another, in such a manner that a comparison is implied, though not formally expressed; a comparison or simile comprised in a word; as, ‘Thy word is a lamp to my feet.'" A metaphor differs from a simile in being expressed without any sign of comparison; thus, “the silver moon" is a metaphor; "the moon is bright as silver" is a simile. Examples:

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"But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill."
"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased-
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow?"
"At length Erasmus

Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age,

And drove those holy Vandals off the stage.”

'Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."