GAKFIELD AND THE PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK. 



SOULE & CAMPBELL'S 

 PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK 



OF 



WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED, 



AHD OF WORDS AS TO VHICH A CHOICE OF PRONUNCIATION 

 11, ALLOWED. 



3000 Mistakes in Pronunciation Corrected, 



A POCKET VOLUME. 

 PRICE 6O CENTS. 



In the able article on u CHARACTERISTICS OF PRESI* 

 PENT GAKFIELD," in The Century Magazine, its author, 

 E. Y. SMALLEY, thus alludes to this little book: 



"He had a great love for linguistic knowledge, and would often 

 uaake a half-game and half-study with his children of telling the 

 meanings of words, or detecting errors in pronunciation. Drop- 

 ping in at his house, one morning in the campaign summer o. 

 1880, just as breakfast was over, I found the family lingering at 

 the table while the General read from a little dictionary of words 

 frequently mispronounced. He would spell the word, and then 

 ask each in turn what the correct pronunciation should be. the 

 aiders were about as apt to make mistakes as the children, and a 

 great, deal of lively chat and merriment, and not a little instruc- 

 tion, resulted from the exercise. This he kept up every morning 

 tfter breakfast until the book was exhausted." 



