1900 printing of 1900 Canadian copyrighted text. The author is credited with a MA and a PhD. A school composition book that features verses for memorization and short themes that lead to a mix of lessons and exercises in discussing, correcting, and reproducing text. Sections cover kinds of narration (household tales, fables, biblical stories, classical myths, stories from ancient history, medieval stories, modern history stories, incidents); letter forms (business, social); description (plants, animals, buildings, landscapes, nature phenomena, persons, games); description and narration (the short story); exposition (how things are made, machines, definition of terms); and argument (pure argument, persuasion) Some pictorial illustrations included. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 222 page text.
A manual aimed at teaching language through objective methods of practice and habit rather than rules and definitions.[return]Excerpt only includes preface and "miscellaneous exercises in composition"
1914 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. Published by the American Schools for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn. Volume three in a series by the author. The text follows a plan that introduces one difficulty at a time and to teach much rather than many things. This collection of lessons featuring pictorial illustrations, story analysis, and sentence diagrams. Lessons include review questions. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 120 page text.
1889 copyrighted text. Strang is credited with a Bachelor of Arts degree. A collection of exercises based around vocabulary, language, and sentence structure. Exercises directions include: substitute words for phrases, change clauses, substitute equivalent expressions, expand simple sentences to complex, write compound and complex sentences, combine groups into sentences, break up sentences into groups, transpose into prose order, change from direct to indirect, paraphrase prose passages, and contract passages. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 90 page text.
