ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION, AND PRECIS 
WRITING. 
For the Use of Teachers and Candidates for the University and 
Public Service Examinations. 
By James Conway, Head Master, Superior Public School, 
Clevelancl-street, Sydney. 
Crown 8vo, doth , 3$. 6d. ; post free, 8s. lOd. 
Sydney Morning* Herald : “To its concise and admirable arrangement 
of rules and definitions, which hold good wherever the English language is spoken 
or written, is added special treatment of special difficulties. In a word, it is to 
New South Wales teachers what a highly-gifted coach is to a candidate for any 
particular examination. Mr. Conway adopts the excellent plan of taking certain 
papers, and of answering the questions in detail. Mr. Conway gives a very useful 
chapter on Prosody, in which the student will find all the information he wants 
about the metres used in English poetry. The directions about composition 
and precis writing are very simple and valuable, and not the least useful in a very 
useful and highly commendable book is the full index at the end. Mr. Conway’s 
Grammar should be in the hands of every teacher.” 
N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “His book is a skilfully arranged and 
scholarly manual from start to finish, and gives evidence on every page of being 
the work of an accomplished and experienced practical teacher. It is such a work 
as those who have had to prepare for the Departmental and Public Examinations 
have been sadly in need of for years. . . This complete and serviceable 
grammar, without which no teacher’s library is complete.” 
Victorian Educational News: “Those who have had to prepare 
candidates for the teachers’ examinations under our Department will appreciat e 
the value of a good text-book by a writer well conversant with his subject, in 
which he cm locate so many of the ‘sinuosities’ of English grammar to an 
arbitrament that must be accepted as justifiable by any body of examiners. . . 
A book which we can heartily recommend as the most suitable we have yet met 
with to place in the hands of students for our intermediate examinations, and 
also for matriculation, pupil teachers’, and certificate of competency examina- 
tions. Wo should be glad to see the work set down in the syllabus of the 
Department so that it would reach the hands of all the students and teachers 
engaged in study ing the subject in our State schools- . 
CONWAY’S SMALLER ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COM- 
POSITION, AND PRECIS WRITING. 
Abridged from the above work. 
Crown 8 vo, doth, Is. Gd. ; post free , Is. 9d. 
N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “The abridgment is very well done. 
The clearness of the instruction, both rules and examples, is as evident in one 
book as the other, and by* this one would recognise the hand of a man who had 
had long experience of the difficulties of this subject.” 
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