REPORTS ON LOCKWOOD'S LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOLROOMS.

James E. Thomas, English High W. M. Baskervill, Prof. of EngSchool, Boston: The best text-book | lish, Vanderbilt University: It is used

Inst., Schenectady, N.Y.: After using fying to me that our teachers with

it two years, I most heartily recommend it to all teachers in composition. It is sure to interest pupils and prove in every way satisfactory.

best text-book of its kind we have ever seen. No book we have used before has awakened such an inter-mal School, Winona, Minn.: I have est or led to such satisfactory results. We would not be without it for any consideration.

The Practical Elements of Rhetoric.

By JOHN F. GENUNG, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. 12mo. Cloth. xiv +483 pages. Mailing Price, $1.40; for Introduction,. $1.25; allowance for an old book in exchange, 40 cents.

THE treatment is characterized by good sense, simplicity, originality, availability, completeness, and ample illustration.

The author recognizes that rhetoric is only means to an end, and that its rules and principles and devices must be employed with caution and good sense.

Great care has been taken to free the treatment from artificialities. Traditional principles and rules have been carefully considered, but discarded unless found to rest on a basis of truth and practical value. The treatment is throughout constructive and the student is regarded at every step as endeavoring to make literature. The work has been prepared not more in the study than in the classroom. All of the literary forms have been given something of the fulness hitherto accorded only to argument and oratory. No important principle has been presented without illustrations drawn from the usage of the best authorities.

Genung's Rhetoric, though a work on a trite subject, has aroused general enthusiasm by its freshness and practical worth. Among the many leading institutions that have introduced it are Yale, Wellesley, Smith, Vassar Colleges; Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Northwestern Universities; and the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan. C. F. Richardson, Prof. of English | sophic and useful manual. I like Literature, Dartmouth College, and especially its literary spirit. author of a History of American Literature: I find it excellent both in plan and execution.

Miss M. A. Jordan, Prof. of Rhetoric, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. The critic is conscious of a feeling of surprise as he misses the orthodox dulness. The analysis of topics is clear, the illustrations are pertinent and of value in themselves, the rules are concise and portable.

Jas. M. Garnett, Prof. of English, University of Virginia: I have carefully read the whole of it, and am determined to introduce it at once into my class. It suits me better than any other text-book of rhetoric that I have examined.

W. H. Magruder, Prof. of English, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi: For clearness of thought, lucidity of expression, aptT. W. Hunt, Prof. of Eng. Litera- ness of illustration,-in short, for ture, Princeton College, Princeton, real teaching power, I have never

N.J.: It impresses me as a philo- | seen this work equalled.

A Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis.

Studies in Style and Invention, designed to accompany the author's Practical Elements of Rhetoric. By JOHN F. GENUNG, Ph.D., Pro. fessor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. 12mo. Cloth. xii+306 pages. Mailing Price, $1.25; Introduction and Teachers' Price, $1.12.

THIS handbook follows the general plan of the larger text-book,

being designed to alternate with that from time to time, as different stages of the subject are reached. Under the two heads of Studies in Style and Studies in Invention, a series of selections from the best prose writers is given, with notes, questions, and references, bringing out whatever is theoretically instructive therein; the whole so arranged as to illustrate, in progressive and cumulative order, the various procedures of discourse, from simple choice of words up to the delicate inventive problems of narration and oratory.

Genung's Rhetoric, followed by the Rhetorical Analysis, and this by Minto (see page 10), make a course that has been found eminently interesting and fruitful.

Margaret E. Stratton, Prof. of Eng. und Rhetoric, Wellesley College: I find in the book just the kind of work I have tried to give my classes, and so arranged that even a dull student must become interested, and gain in the power of composition. I consider Prof. Genung's work in both his Rhetoric and Handbook a

of rhetoric has tried to give his classes something of such work in connection with his text-book; but the results that may be attained by means of this help must be far more satisfactory than those secured in more desultory ways.

W. J. Rolfe, Editor of Shakespeare, etc. It is the best thing in most valuable contribution to the the way of practical rhetoric that I study of English.

have ever seen. The selections are singularly happy, and the analysis of them is admirable.

John Seath, Inspector of High Schools, Ontario: It is the first good, systematic application of rhet

J. H. Gilmore, Prof. of Rhetoric, Univ. of Rochester, N. Y.: This strikes me as a very significant attempt to open a road that college students especially need to travel. W. B. Chamberlain, Prof. of Rhetoric that I have seen. I recommend oric, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio: it heartily to teachers of English. It The Analysis particularly pleases me, cannot but prove eminently useful. as affording a very natural and prac- W. I. Thomas, Prof. of English, tical bridging from rhetoric to lit- Oberlin College, Ohio: It was used erature. The plan, contents, and last year, and gave great satisfaction. execution seem to me about all that There is nothing else so good offered. could be desired. Every live teacher (Oct. 30, 1890.)

Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature.

Designed mainly to show characteristics of style. By WILLIAM MINTO, M.A., Professor of Logic and English Literature in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 12mo. Cloth. 566 pages. Mailing price, $1.65; for introduction, $1.50; allowance, 40 cents.

THE

HE main design is to assist in directing students in English composition to the merits and defects of the principal writers of prose, enabling them, in some degree at least, to acquire the one and avoid the other. The Introduction analyzes style: elements of style, qualities of style, kinds of composition. Part First gives exhaustive analyses of De Quincey, Macaulay, and Carlyle. These serve as a key to all the other authors treated. Part Second takes up the prose authors in historical order, from the fourteenth century up to the early part of the nineteenth.

Hiram Corson, Prof. English Lit-terest. The criticisms and comments erature, Cornell University: With- on authors are admirable — the best, out going outside of this book, an ear- on the whole, that I have met with nest student could get a knowledge in any text-book. of English prose styles, based on the soundest principles of criticism, such as he could not get in any twenty volumes which I know of.

Katherine Lee Bates, Prof. of English, Wellesley College: It is of sterling value.

John M. Ellis, Prof. of English | Literature, Oberlin College: I am using it for reference with great in

J. Scott Clark, Prof. of Rhetoric, Syracuse University: We have now given Minto's English Prose a good trial, and I am so much pleased that I want some more of the same.

A. W. Long, Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.: I have used Minto's English Poets and English Prose the past year, and am greatly pleased with the results.

The Introduction to Minto's English Prose.

44 pages. 12mo. Paper, 15 cents.

Reprinted in this form especially for the use of the C. L. S. C.

Minto's Characteristics of the English Poets,

from Chaucer to Shirley.

By WILLIAM MINTO, M.A., Professor of Logic and English Literature in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 12mo. Cloth. xi+382 pages. Mailing price, $1.65; for introduction, $1.50; allowance, 40 cents. THE chief objects of the author are: (1) To bring into clear

light the characteristics of the several poets; and (2) to trace how far each was influenced by his literary predecessors and his contemporaries.

Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to

Victoria. 1580-1880.

By JAMES M. GARNETT, Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of Virginia. 12mo. Cloth. ix+701 pages. By mail, $1.65; for introduction, $1.50.

THIS work includes selections from Lyly, Sidney, Hooker, Bacon, Ben Jonson, Browne, Fuller, Milton, Clarendon, Jeremy Taylor, Cowley, Temple, Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Addison, Steele, Bolingbroke, Johnson, Hume, Goldsmith, Burke, Gibbon, Scott, Southey, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, Landor, De Quincey, Carlyle, and Macaulay. The selections are accompanied by such explanatory notes as have been deemed necessary, and will average some twenty pages each. The object is to provide students with the texts themselves of the most prominent writers of English prose for the past three hundred years in selections of sufficient length to be characteristic of the author, and, when possible, they are complete works or sections of works. The book will serve as a companion volume to Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature, or may be used in connection with any other manual of English literature.

J. M. Hart, Prof. of English, Cornell University: So far as I can see at a first glance, it seems just what I need. . . . The book promises me great comfort.

F. B. Gummere, Prof. of English, Haverford College: I like the plan, the selections, and the making of the book.

James R. Truax, Prof. of English, T. W. Hunt, Prof. of English, Union College: It is a welcome arPrinceton College: I find in it that rival. Hitherto I have been comcritical discrimination and keen lit-pelled to send the students to the erary insight which I expected to find in a work from Professor Garnett. I am sure that it will be of practical service to all those who have to do with the study and teaching of our English prose.

library for assignments in connection with Minto. Henceforth it is possible to put an alcove into the hands of each student, in the shape of this timely volume, and to relieve him from many inconveniences that necessarily belonged to the other

method.

Louise M. Hodgkins, Prof. of English, Wellesley College: It well supplements Minto, and well illus- H. N. Ogden, West Virginia Unitrates English thought from Eliza-versity: The book fulfils my expecbeth to Victoria. . . It is a fine tations in every respect, and will book of selections, and I shall use become an indispensable help in the it in my work. work of our senior English class.