GROOMBRIDGE'S 



SHILLING PRACTICAL MANUALS. 



Each Booh sent 'post free for 12 stamps. 



10. ORATORY MADE EASY, A Guide to the Com- 

 position of Speeches. By Charles Hartley. Con- 

 tents : Introduction, Power of Art, Various Kinds of 

 Oratory, Prepared Speech, Constructing a Speech, 

 Short Speeches, Command of Language, Reading and 

 Thinking, Style, Hasty Composition, Forming a 

 Style, Copiousness and Conciseness, Diction or Lan- 

 guage, Purity and Propriety, Misapplied "Words, 

 Monosyllables, Specific Terms, Varietur of Language, 

 Too Great Care about Words, Epithets, Precision, 

 Synonymes, Perspicuity, Long and Short Sentences, 

 Tropes and Figures, Metaphor, Simile, &c. 



11. THE GRAMMATICAL REMEMBRANCER ; 



or, Aids for Correct Speaking, Writing, and Spelling, 

 for Adults. By Charles Hartley. Contents : Intro- 

 duction, Neglect of English Grammar, Divisions of 

 Grammar, Parts of Speech, The Article, The Silent 

 H, Nouns, Formation of the Plural, Genders of Nouns, 

 Cases of Nouns, Comparison of Adjectives, Personal 

 Pronouns, Eelative Pronouns, Demonstrative Pro- 

 nouns, Regular and Irregular Verbs, Shall and Will, 

 The Adverb, Misapplication of Words, Division of 

 Words, Capital Letters, Rules for Spelling Double I 

 and p, A Short Syntax, Punctuation, &c. 



12. THE CANARY: Its History, Varieties, Manage- 



ment, and Breeding, with Coloured Frontispiece. By 

 Richard Avis. Contains, History of the Canary, 

 Varieties of the Canary, Pood and General Manage- 

 ment, Cages, Breeding, Education of tiie Young, 

 Mules, Diseases, &c. 



13. BIRD PRESERVING and Bird Mounting', and 



the Preservation -of Birds' Eggs, with a Chapter on 

 Bird Catching. By Richard Avis. 



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