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CONTENTS
BOOK I. PENMANSHIP AND PEN FLOURISHING. PAGE. - Containing Rules and Directions for Plain Business Penmanship, Off-Hand Flourishing, Short-Hand Writing and Lithographic Plates, with Suggestions on Management of Writing-Classes
17 BOOK II. RHETORIC, ORATORY AND COMPOSITION. - Containing Rules for Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization, Composition, and accompanied by Illustrations representing Ease and Grace of Position when Reading and Speaking
48 BOOK III. DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS. - Giving Spelling, Definitions and Synonyms of over Eleven Thousand Words, whereby Writers and Speakers, by Study, may Avoid Tautology in their Language
63 BOOK IV. LETTERS OF CORRESPONDENCE. - Including Superscriptions, Letters of Business, Sympathy, Introduction, Advice, Love, Congratulation, Friendship, Recommendation, Asking Favors, Accompanying Gifts, etc.
79 BOOK V. SOCIAL FORMS. - Giving Illustrations of Cards, Inyitations, Wedding Ceremonies, Family Records, Marriage Anniversaries, Marriage Notices, Licenses, Visiting Cards, Selections for Albums, etc.
121 BOOK VI. LAWS OF ETIQUETTE - Giving Suggestions on Introductions, Calls, Visiting, Parties, Balls, Dinners, Funerals, Carriage and Horseback Riding, the Toilet, Conversation, Courtship, Marriage, etc.
139 BOOK VII. COMMERCIAL FORMS. - Presenting Forms of Notes, Checks, Drafts, Interest Tables, Book-keeping, Bills of Exchange, Deposit Tickets, Due Bills, Orders, Receipts, Bills of Purchase, etc.
179 BOOK VIII. LEGAL BUSINESS FORMS. PAGE. - Containing Forms of Agreements, Deeds, Leases, Mortgages, Wills, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Exemptions from Forced Sale, Collection of Debts, Reports of Committees, etc.
194 BOOK IX. TABLES OF REFERENCE. - Giving Population, Distances, Sizes, Dates, Tables, Measures, Capacity, Weights, Value of Coins, Names, Foreign Words, and Thousands of Important Facts
224 BOOK X. PARLIAMENTARY RULES. - Containing forms of Constitutions, Resolutions, Calls for Meetings, Petitions to Public Bodies, Suggestions Relative to Public Celebrations, and Rules for Conducting Meetings
246 BOOK XI. WRITING FOR THE PRESS. - Giving Suggestions on Correspondence, and Illustrations of Books, Types, Proof-Reading, accompanied by a List of Subjects to write about when Gathering News, etc
227. BOOK XII. LETTERING AND INSCRIPTIONS. - Containing Alphabets, Forms, Wording, Punctuation and Arrangement of Various Kinds of Inscriptions used by Sign-Painters, Tomb-Stone Cutters and Engravers
280 BOOK XIII. RULES OF VERSIFICATION. - Including Illustrations of Rhyme, Blank Verse, Names of Different Kinds of Poetry, Rules for Making Poetic Feet, and a Vocabulary. of Rhymes
202 BOOK XIV. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETS. - Containing many of the most Beautiful Poems in the Language,—Poems that will Live in the Ages to Come, each Teaching a Moral, and’every one a Gem
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