OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. "It seems to me to be based on sound principles, and to be very well arranged, and likely to be very useful.' The late DEAN ALFORD. "I like it very much, especially the part on words with similar sounds but dissimilar meaning. I hope to put a short notice of the book in the February Contemporary." The late DR. PRINCE LEE, Bishop of Manchester. "The little work promises to be extensively useful." The REV. J. WILSON, D.D. "A great deal of information compressed in a small space, and in a form convenient for those young persons for whom it is designed. The book may be looked upon as a very useful and judicious addition to our educational appliances." THE CHURCHMAN. "We can testify to the soundness of the principles here advanced." EDUCATIONAL TIMES. 'The method adopted in the book before us brings under the learner's notice just those kind of words which experience in the correction of candidates has shown to be most liable to be mis-spelt. The book is one to be commended, and is certainly a great improvement upon the old-fashioned spelling book." MUSEUM. "The principle is correct, and the writers show great skill in bringing into their sentences those words which it is most important for pupils to know, yet in which they are most likely to go wrong. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. "It blends amusement with instruction. Even Dr. Johnson himself might have accorded a nod of approbation to this Spelling Book." ENGLISH SPELLING AS IT IS. A SERIES OF DICTATION LESSONS For the use of Schools and Private Students. ARRANGED BY A. H. BARFORD, B.A., F.L.S., HEAD MASTER OF THE ST. MARYLEBONE AND ALL SOULS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL, AND HENRY A. TILLEY, PRINCIPAL OF ETON HOUSE SCHOOL, ADELAIDE ROAD. NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. WITH AN APPENDIX ON SPELLING REFORM. LONDON: RELFE, BROTHERS, 6, CHARTERHOUSE BUILDINGS, ALDERSGATE. 1878. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. THE present little Work is intended by the Compilers to be a handbook, by the use of which teachers may put their pupils through a complete course of English Spelling, according the most approved mode of teaching that art, viz., by Dictation. The words given for practice are those which experience in the correction of papers of candidates for public appointment has shown to be the most liable to mis-spelling. The sentences have been framed in a manner that will best show the common meaning of the words to be dictated, and, at the same time, either to convey some useful truth or moral, or to cause the pupil to think and distinguish. In the spelling of inflected words, no particular dictionary has been followed. It is assumed, that in teaching 'English Spelling, as it is,' no better guide could possibly be found than that afforded by the leading articles of the 'Times,' and of other firstrate journals, which represent the Intellect of the day. With all words of disputed spelling where |