Language Books

A First Reader

Catherine T. Bryce

The initial stock of about one hundred “sight words,” which the reading of the Primer has furnished, is increased gradually. At first most of the new words are easily acquired, as were those of the Pr..

Learning to Spell - A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller

Catherine T. Bryce

Ever since the school of early days spelling has accompanied “reading, ’riting, and ’rithmetic” as a part of the curriculum. The day when reading was taught by the “spelling method,” so called, is not..

New Century Speaker and Writer

Henry Davenport Northrop

Millions of young people in America are being educated, and hence there is a very great demand for a Standard Work showing how to express written thought in the most elegant manner and how to read and..

The Summers Readers: First Reader

Maud Summers

WHEN the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective se..

Parts of Speech - Essays on English

Brander Matthews

The point of view from which the English language has been approached is that of the man of letters rather than that of the professed expert in linguistics. But the writer ventures to hope that the pr..