Effective English

ENGLISH

By P. P. CLAXTON, United States Commissioner of Education, and JAMES MCGINNISS, Principal of the High School, Ludlow, Kentucky, 12mo, cloth, 584 pages. Price, $1.25.

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'FFECTIVE ENGLISH is a complete text-book in rhetoric covering every phase of secondary English.

Realizing the importance of enthusiasm in the work in English the authors have set out to secure the pupils' interest at the start and to hold it to the end. The variety, vigor, and definiteness of the presentation will attract young pupils.

The book is distinctly literary in character; quotations from the best writers abound in its pages. The authors hold that the most practical English is learned from the best models. In choosing these models preference has been given to those which have permanent literary value. Special attention is given, and frequent references are made, to the great folk-epics of the Greeks, Germans, and Northmen.

Over half the book is devoted to practice. Every rule and principle is carefully illustrated, and ample drill is afforded to fix it in the pupil's mind.

The exercises cover the whole range of school activity from the interests of classical schools with their emphasis on Latin and Greek traditions to the commercial school with its stress upon Business English. There are exercises adapted to every variety of boy and girl, whether they are interested in art, birdlore, pageantry, or the "movies."

The book is illustrated with handsome half-tones, which are made the basis of work in composition.

Effective English is divided into six parts, thoroughly discussing all forms from the elements of effective speaking and writing to the finer points of effective style and criticism. Part VI treats of Grammar.

The Appendix deals with Preparation of Manuscript, Punctuation and Capitalization, and Suggestions to Teachers.

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