manuscripts for the printer, business letters, and any sort of 
composition where correctness of form is an important element. 
It treats in a clear and convenient way the matters of 
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of “copy” for the printer and the correcting of proof. The 
chapter on letter-writing is unique and gives just the help that 
_is constantly wanted and that other manuals deny. 
C. E. Raymond, Vice-President of the J. Walter Thompson Co. It 
seems to me to be the most comprehensive and comprehensible of 
any of the works on this subject which I have had the pleasure of 
seein. 
The Elements of Debating: A Manual for Use in High Schools 
and Academies. By Leverett S. Lyon, of the Joliet High 
School. 
148 pages, 12mo, cloth; $1.00, postpaid $1.07 
This book does not pretend to originality in material; its 
aim is to put the well-established principles of the art within 
the reach of young students. It therefore presents the elements 
of public speaking so freed from technicality that the student 
may assimilate them in the shortest possible time and with the 
least possible interpretation by the teacher. 
The book consists of ten chapters and a number of appen- 
dices. Each chapter is preceded by an analysis of the subject 
and followed by a series of suggested exercises. The whole 
subject is treated in a direct, practical way with the greatest 
possible clearness, and with illustrations drawn from subjects 
familiar and interesting to high-school boys. It is entirely 
modern in that it lays stress on efficiency, rather than on theo- 
retical perfection. Illustrations are given from some of the most 
effective arguments ever written, and a list of suggested topics 
is added in an appendix. 
London in English Literature. By Percy Holmes Boynton, Assistant 
Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago. 
358 pages, 8vo, cloth; $2.00, postpaid $2.17 
This volume differs from all other volumes on London in 
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the point of view of the antiquarian but from that of the inquiring 
student of English literary history. oo 
It deals with ten consecutive periods, characterized in turn 
by the work and spirit of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, 
Addison, Johnson, Lamb, Dickens, and by the qualities of Vic- 
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