6. Under Rule VIII. milton's "paradise lost" brought him in only five Pounds. Have you read dickens' Account of his visit to america, which he entitles " american notes for general circulation?" I have read with delight hervey's "meditations among the tombs."

7. Under Rule X. i love thee not as once i loved, o false friend, o cruel traitor. O Heaven! iam undone! O wretched youth! i thought i hated thee; but thy misfortune hath turned My Hate To Pity.

LESSON XXXΙΙ.

A REVIEW.

WHAT is a sentence? How many kinds of sentences are there? What is a declarative sentence? an imperative sentence? an interrogative sentence? an exclamatory sentence?

What is a phrase? What is a clause? What is a relative clause? a participial clause? an adverbial clause ? a vocative clause?

When is one noun said to be in apposition with another? What is punctuation? Name the characters used in punctuation. Where is the period placed? What is the period also used to denote? Where is the interrogation point used? the exclamation point? Where should the colon be placed ? What is the semicolon used to separate? Repeat the rule for the use of the semicolon between dependent clauses; the rule that relates to examples.

For what is the comma used? What is the rule that relates to the use of the comma in the case of clauses and phrases? What are the four principal clauses that fall under this rule ? Mention some of the phrases that fall under it. What is the rule that relates to the subject of a verb? to the omission of words? to certain conjunctions? to nouns in apposition? to words used in pairs?

EXERCISE.

Copy the following extracts, inserting as may be required, capital letters, punctuation-points, and the other marks used in writing, described in Lesson XXVIII.

1. The Bushman and the missionary. the bushmen are a very degraded and ignorant race who live in southern africa not far from the cape of good hope A missionary who for some time had been laboring to introduce christianity among them took occasion one day to speak of the great objects of creation and the duties of man. at last he asked, what is the chief end of man The bushmen were silent for several moments apparently reflecting what answer they should give to this difficult question At length one of them who seemed inspired by a sudden idea replied, to steal oxen.

2. The bravery of Horatius cocles. when porsenna king of the etrurians was endeavoring to reestablish tarquinius superbus on the throne he attacked rome and had the good fortune to take the janiculum at the first assault At this crisis, horatius cocles a common sentinel but a man of the greatest courage posted himself at the extremity of the Sublician bridge and alone withstood the whole force of the enemy till the bridge was broken down behind him. he then threw himself into the tiber and swam over to his friends unhurt by either his fall or

the darts of the enemy

3.

by wisdom tutored poetry exalts

her voice to ages and informs the page

with music image sentiment and thought

LESSON XXXΙΙΙ.

A REVIEW.

For what is the dash used? For what are parentheses and brackets used? For what is the apostrophe used? quotation marks? the hyphen ? the caret?

Repeat the ten rules for the use of capital letters.

EXERCISE.

Copy the following extracts, inserting, as may be required, capitals, punctuation-points, and the other marks used in writing.

LIARS. aristides among the athenians and epaminondas among the thebans are said to have been such lovers of truth that they never told a lie even in joke. atticus likewise with whom cicero was very intimate neither told a lie himself nor could bear it in others. i hate that man achilles used to say as much as i do the gates of pluto who says one thing and thinks another.. Aristotle bears his testimony as follows liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. Sincerity is one of the most important virtues that man can possess.

2. THE AFFECTIONATE DOLPHIN. during the reign of the emperor augustus a dolphin formed an attachment to the son of a poor man who used to feed him with bits of bread. every day the dolphin when called by the boy swam to the surface of the water and after having received his usual meal carried the boy on his back from baiæ to a school in puteoli and brought him back in the same manner. The boy after a time died and the dol phin coming to the usual place and missing his kind master is said also to have died of grief.

LESSON XXXIV.

PRIMITIVE, COMPOUND, AND DERIVATIVE WORDS. ANALYSIS. ACCENT.

WHAT is a word?

A word is what is written or spoken as the sign of an idea.

Into how many classes may we divide words, when considered with regard to their origin?

Into three classes; primitive, compound, and derivative.

What is a primitive word ?

A primitive word is one that is not formed from

any simpler word; as, watch, man.

What is a compound word?

A compound word is one that is formed by uniting two or more primitives; as, watchman.

What is a derivative word?

A derivative word is one that is formed from

one primitive; as, watches, manly.

How are derivatives formed from primitives?

By the addition of one or more letters; which, if placed before the primitive, are called prefixes, if after it, suffixes. Thus; act is a primitive; trans act is a derivative, formed by the addition of the prefix trans; acted is a derivative, formed by the addition of the suffix ed.

What is meant by analyzing a word?

Separating it into parts.

Analyze the word walking.

Walking is a derivative, formed from the primi tive, walk, and the suffix, ing.

Analyze the word man-hater.

Man-hater is a compound word, formed from the two primitives, man, and hater.

Analyze blindly, review, glass-house, moreover, bird-cage, repress. What mark is generally used to connect the primitives that unite to form a compound word?

The hyphen.

What is meant by Accent?

By Accent is meant stress of the voice: thus, in colder, the first syllable, cold, receives the stress of the voice, and therefore we say that the accent is on cold.

On how many syllables in a word may accent be laid? In short words, on one syllable only; as, raven, begin, deny: in long words, on two, and even three syllables; as, agriculture, Constantinople, Incomprehensibility. In the examples just given, the accented syllables are printed in italics.

In scholar, what syllable is accented? in dethrone? in misery? In civilize? in inhabitant? in philosophy?

EXERCISE.

Primitive words. Night, day, school, book, store, fruit, fire, man, boat, sun, flower, garden, ice, glass, green, house.

1. Form and write out ten compound words, by uniting two of the above primitives. You are not at liberty to unite any two, but only such as form a compound word that makes good sense, or that you may have seen or heard used. Thus, night-book would not do; but nightschool would convey a definite idea, and would be proper. 2. Form and write out ten derivative words from the