BY ALFRED AYRES.

The Orthoëpist.

A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Four Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a considerable number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. Revised and Enlarged. 18mo. Cloth, $1.25.

The Verbalist:

A Manual devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words, and to some other Matters of Interest to those who would Speak and Write with Propriety. 18m0. Cloth, $1.00.

The Mentor:

A Little Book for the Guidance of such Men and Boys as would Appear to Advantage in the Society of Persons of the Better Sort. 18mo. Cloth, $1.00.

Acting and Actors;

ELOCUTION AND ELOCUTIONISTS. With Preface by Harrison Grey Fiske; Introduction by Edgar S. Werner; Prologue by James A. Waldron.

Grammar without a Master.

The English Grammar

OF WILLIAM COBBETT. Carefully Revised and Annotated. 18mo. Cloth, $1.00.

New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue.

TO BRIEF DISCUSSIONS OF THE RIGHT AND THE
WRONG USE OF WORDS

AND

TO SOME OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THOSE WHO
WOULD SPEAK AND WRITE WITH PROPRIETY.

BY

ALFRED AYRES.

WE remain shackled by timidity till we have learned to speak with propriety.-JOHNSON.

As a man is known by his company, so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself.-SWIFT.

PREFATORY NOTE.

THE title-page sufficiently sets forth the end. this little book is intended to serve.

For convenience' sake I have arranged in alphabetical order the subjects treated of, and for economy's sake I have kept in mind that "he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself in his own ink."

The curious inquirer who sets himself to look for the learning in the book is advised that he will best find it in such works as George P. Marsh's "Lectures on the English Language," Fitzedward Hall's "Recent Exemplifications of False Philology," and "Modern English," Richard Grant White's "Words and Their Uses," Edward S. Gould's "Good English,"

William

Mathews' "Words: their Use and Abuse," Dean Alford's "The Queen's English," George Washington Moon's "Bad English," and "The Dean's English," Blank's

'Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech," Alexander Bain's "English Composition and Rhetoric," Bain's "Higher English Grammar," Bain's "Composition Grammar," Quackenbos' "Composition and Rhetoric," John Nichol's "English Composition," William Cobbett's "English Grammar," Peter Bullions' "English Grammar," Goold Brown's "Grammar of English Grammars," Graham's "English Synonymes," Crabb's "English Synonymes," Bigelow's Hand-book of Punctuation," and other kindred works.

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Suggestions and criticisms are solicited, with the view of profiting by them in future editions. If "The Verbalist " receive as kindly a welcome as its companion volume, "The Orthoëpist," has received, I shall be content.

A. A.