UNIV. Or LANGUAGE PRIMERA BEGINNERS' LESSONS IN SPEAKING AND WRITING ENGLISH. BY WILLIAM SWINTON, A. M., AUTHOR OF "LANGUAGE LESSONS," NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1874. PREFACE. THIS little work is designed to serve as a Primer, or beginners' book in the study of our own language. In the new courses of study in most of our cities, lessons in writing and speaking English are begun quite early; and this fact has disclosed the need of a small manual of suitable work, to be placed in the hands of young scholars as the accompaniment of the teacher's oral instruction. The success of the author's "Language Lessons " a success without precedent in school-book literature is the best assurance that the simple, untechnical, objective, and inductive mode of unfolding our speech will meet the views of intelligent teachers. CAMBRIDGE, August, 1874. W. S. EDUCATION DEPT. TEACHER'S NOTE. The paragraphs introduced by a are, where not mere directions, designed as suggestions for oral explanation by the teacher; sometimes by way of introducing a topic, and at other times by way of summing up. This mode of developing the subject works admirably in the class-room, exciting the interest and quickening the mental power of the pupil. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, BY HARPER AND BROTHERS, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. |