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- 1988 printing of 1877 text, new matter copyrighted 1988. Introduction discusses the publication history of the text, and explicates some of Whitney's insights and innovations. The intro compares Whitney's text to the writings of his contemporaries, such as E. A. F. Maetzner, Samuel Greene, John Ash, Thomas Harvey, and Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg. Whitney's preface states that the pursuit of correctness in writing should be a secondary or subordinate purpose, and is best sought indirectly. It advocates constant use and practice, under never-failing watch and correction. Schultz Archive copy includes Downey's introduction, the original preface, TOC, and the first 23 pages of the text.
- Creator/Author:
- Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1877
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1883 printing of 1883 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Teacher of Language and Literature in the Hoboken (N.J.) Academy. Text in response to criticism of language study in schools, and based on the idea that to obtain a practical knowledge of English one need only study the best, most idiomatic English writers, such as William Corbett. Text is an account of Corbett's life with one of his best productions, Corbett's English Grammar. The work aims to show what Corbett was as a man and a writer, to show how a writer acquired his power of expression. The Schultz Archive copy contains the editor's preface, the author's preface, a page of the TOC, and pages 218 – 223, on how Corbett taught grammar.
- Creator/Author:
- Corbett, William and Waters, Robert, 1835-1910
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1883
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1889 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Teacher of Rhetoric in the Richmond High Schools, Richmond, VA. A practical treatise on rhetoric for the lower grades of high school. Includes a discussion of simple, complex, and compound sentences, as students still need this review of grammar (in part because their grammar instruction has been analytical rather than synthetical). Lessons include a section of reproduction and a section of development. The Reproductions furnishes material for practice of the discussed principles. The Developments section is a more advanced step, giving play to the imagination by supplying the details of a connected story, while also serving as a test of style. Chapters cover kinds of sentences, paragraphing, variety of expression, style, figures of speech, special properties of style, paraphrasing, kinds of prose composition, prosody and versification, and poetry. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, a few scattered pages, and pages 309 – 335 on prose composition.
- Creator/Author:
- Waddy, Virginia, 1850-1911
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1888
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1874 printing of 1874 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of several language texts. A manual for school work for students ages 12 to 15 made with reference to the recent remodeling of language-training in the public schools. Students are given exercise in actual composition at the same time they taught the details of rhetorical theory, based on the idea that pupils must be taught how to write at all, before they can be shown how to write well. The text is divided into five parts. Part one covers the construction and combination of sentences. Part two: the variation of arrangement, structure, and phraseology. Part three: simple composition exercises, including descriptive and narrative subjects. Part four: Style, including word choice, construction, figures of language, and analysis of style. Part five: practical composition of themes and essays. The preface credits the influence of English Prose Composition by James Currie, Cornwall's Young Composer, Dalgleish's English Composition, and Armstrong's English Composition. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, introduction, all of part three, pages 82 – 87 of part four, and all of part five.
- Creator/Author:
- Swinton, William, 1833-1892
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1874
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
5. Composition and Rhetoric: By Practice, with exercises, adapted for use in high schools and colleges
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1894 printing of 1890 copyrighted text. Revised and enlarged edition. Author is credited with a B.A. and as editor of Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," Cowper's "Task," etc. Preface (dated 1891) states text addresses lack of texts that ably deal with the theoretical part of composition and offer a sufficient amount of practice. It proceeds on the simple method of laying down a few principles at a time and then illustrating them with a variety of exercises. Chapters cover: the sentence, punctuation, style (diction, formation of sentences, construction of paragraphs), variety of expression, figures of speech, qualities of style (perspicuity, picturesqueness, force, pathos, the ludicrous, the aesthetic), letters, the plan, kinds of discourse, versification, correcting compositions, and proof-reading and marking. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 338 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Williams, William
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1894
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 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.
- Creator/Author:
- Weiss, Harry B. (Harry Bischoff), 1883-1972
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1905
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1907 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a PhD and as Assistant Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin. A practical manual for students of composition for reference in case of errors in themes and for independent reference by those who want information on good usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, manuscript-arrangement, and letter-writing. Preface argues the text is purposefully dogmatic, as it is necessary for most students to observe rigidly and invariably rules to which masters of the art make exceptions. The author credits the influence of Professors Adams Sherman Hill, William Dwight Whitney, Alphonso G. Newcomer, John Duncan Quackenbos, Fred Newton Scott, and Joseph Villier Denney. Section one, the Composition of Discourse, includes: introductory on the standard of good usage, diction, the structure of sentences, and the structure of larger units of discourse. Section two, Putting Discourse on Paper, covers: spelling, legibility, arrangement of manuscript, alterations in manuscript, punctuation, syllabication, abbreviations, etc. Section three is Analytical Outlines; section four, Letter-Writing; section five, a Glossary of Miscellaneous faulty expressions. The appendices cover: exercises for breaking certain bad habits in writing and speaking, a grammatical vocabulary, and a list of words that are often mispronounced. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 239 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Woolley, Edwin C. (Edwin Campbell), 1878-1916
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2020
- Date Created:
- 1907
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- Text copyrighted 1900 and 1910. Author is credited as Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. A text on the history of the education of black Americans that begins by relating the progress of black Americans with President McKinley's words on the evolution of the country. Sections cover development of popular education, education of negroes before 1860, public school education in the south after the war, ground work education in the south, bequests for southern education, present educational status. Includes 8 statistical tables. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 44 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/26/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1776
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1899 copyrighted text. Title page states this Department of Education text is for the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900. The author is credited as President of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. A study of higher education of women in the United States based on the past thirty years which finds that women's education is primarily to train mental faculties and only secondarily to provide professional or special education to equip women to be self-supporting. Includes sections on coeducation, independent colleges for women, professional education (including graduate instruction), occupations of college women, coeducation versus separate education, and curriculum. Graphs and tables are included to illustrate statistics. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 40 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 and Butler, Nicholas Murray (editor)
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/26/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1899
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 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.
- Creator/Author:
- Sykes, Frederick Henry, 1863-1917
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1900
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- A grammar handbook that features a wide array of exercises to stimulate young minds. Illustrations, letter composition, and other techniques commonly featured.
- Creator/Author:
- Welsh, Judson Perry
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1896
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 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.
- Creator/Author:
- Welsh, Alfred H. (Alfred Hix), 1850-1889
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1896
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1963 edition of text first published in 1891 as "Eight Lectures." A note by the author credits the influence of A. S. Hill, Professor Bain, Professor Genung, and Professor McElroy. It also states its new treatment is justified as none of the existing texts are quite simple enough for popular reading. The lectures cover: the elements and the qualities of style, words, sentences, paragraphs, whole compositions, clearness, force, elegance, and summary. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 316 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1891
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Superintendent Public Schools, Providence, R.I. A collection of 343 lessons structured to develop language and grammar skills simultaneously for pupils of the higher grammar grades. Text considers the pupils needs first then that of the teacher followed, lastly, by the needs of the subject. Covers grammar as the science of the sentence and the elements of composition as the art of writing. The grammar part covers includes analysis and punctuation. The composition part covers the forms of epistolary, social, business, and parliamentary writing; it also provides for practice in writing through exercises in the selection and arrangement of words, in description, narration, reproduction, paraphrase, and essay-writing. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 299 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Tarbell, H. S. (Horace Sumner), 1838-1904
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1891
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1884 copyrighted text. A book on manners that strives to be familiar and conversational, with children doing a large part of the talking. Chapters cover manners: in general, at school, on the street, at home, toward the aged, at the table, in society, at church, at places of amusement, in stories and similar public places, in travelling (sic), and in borrowing. Each lesson includes an outline for teachers to write on the blackboard. The Schultz Archive copy contains most of the introduction, TOC, and a selection of pages, most of which are the outlines for the lessons. Some of the pages are difficult to read due to the quality of the copying.
- Creator/Author:
- Wiggin, Edith E.
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1884
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1886 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Late Supervisor in the Boston Schools. An elementary grammar that assumes students have already received some instruction in composition in primary and grammar school. Includes study of parts of speech as well as arrangement, construction, inflection, and its substitutes. The illustration of principles precedes their technical naming; technical names not related to grammatical distinctions are excluded. The appendix covers idiomatic expressions and their history as well as difficult and doubtful constructions. Part one covers the sentence and some parts of speech; part two covers more parts of speech, moods, and tenses; part three covers syntax and punctuation; part four covers irregular parts of speech and more complex arrangements as well as methods of analysis. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 113 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Tweed, Benjamin F., 1811-1896
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Created:
- 1886
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 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.
- Creator/Author:
- Sweet, Caroline C.
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 1914
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 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.
- Creator/Author:
- Eaton, J. Adair and Strang, H. I. (Hugh Innes), 1841-1919
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 1889
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1896 printing of 1896 copyrighted text. Author is credited as Teacher of English in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. The book is a collection of speeches presented at the Brooklyn Teachers' Association on the subject of elementary composition. Chapter 1, A Word to the Reader, states the author believes composition may include speaking as well as writing and work by a community as well as work by individuals. It also voices concern about composition teaching that invents a barrier of formulas and conventionality. Chapters cover letter-writing, story-telling, word-collecting, descriptions, the simile and personification, elaboration of sentences into paragraphs, outlining compositions, criticism and other various topics. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 114 page text.
- Creator/Author:
- Spalding, Elizabeth H.
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 1896
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Type:
- Document
- Description/Abstract:
- 1906 printing of 1905 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Bachelor of Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and as the author of a book on elementary composition and a language speller. Author's note states the book is based on material from the author's years of teaching. It's distinctive approach includes: gradual increase in skill, establishment of good habits, repeated applications, careful grouping of subjects, a standpoint of a fellow-worker, encouraging self-reliance, and opportunities to complete pieces of literature. Also includes five sections of "Answers to Pupils' Inquiries." Chapters cover qualities of style, punctuation, points of view, kinds of sentences, figures of speech, descriptive writing, metaphorical stories, narration, poetry, exposition, argumentation, and the structuring of compositions. Includes an appendix on English and Library Work. The Schultz Archive copy includes the author's note, TOC, the first page of the introduction, and pages 54 – 67, 94 – 99, 138 – 175, 214 – 259.
- Creator/Author:
- Spalding, Elizabeth H.
- Submitter:
- Russel Durst
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2016
- Date Modified:
- 08/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 1906
- License:
- Public Domain Mark 1.0