1896 printing of 1889 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts, (of) Ohio State University, and as the author of several other texts on various subjects. A manual for school work that is a sequel to ordinary grammar textbooks and an introduction to rhetoric. For a composition course that develops critical literary taste, habits of systematic investigation, and the power of expressing a train of thought in appropriate language. Subjects are progressive in arrangement and exercises are graduated. The exercises cover kinds of discourse: descriptive, narrative, and discursive. Paraphrasing, reproduction from memory, classification of thoughts, topical analysis, summarizing, punctuation, letter writing, and versification are also covered. The author credits the influence of Meiklejohn, Dagleish, Armstrong, Hiley, Reid, Monfries, Murison, Brewer, Laurie, Isbister, Leitch, Bardeen, Southworth, and Goddard. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 204 page text.
1945 printing. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of December, 1944 and January, 1945. A handbook on letter-writing that excludes examples of historical, literary, and specialized (such as business) correspondence in favor of a general letter-writer for the "average" person. Introduction covers the history of the letter-writer handbook, dating back 1568. It credits much of its history to Katherine Gee Hornbeak's The Complete Letter Writing in English, 1568 – 1800. The text features examples of letters on general and specific topics (ex: A Father to his Daughter, Refusing his Consent to an Early Marriage). It also includes a bibliography called Preliminary Check List of American Letter-Writers, 1698-1943. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 54 page text.
