373, 588, 589, 592, 593, 594, 595,
596, 598, 599, 632
Shakspere, William, 165, 219, 266, 344,
347, 354, 366, 456, 508, 511, 535,
589, 597, 615, 638, 640; q. xix,
lxiii, lxvi, lxviii, lxxii, Ixxiii,
xcix, ci, civ, cviii, cxxi, cxxiv,
78, 104, 111, 118, 119, 225, 257,
261, 263, 268, 269, 286, 417, 562,
636, 637, 641; cr. 618
Shall and will, lxv-lxx, lxxii
Shedd, W. G. T., q. 348, 436, 451, 477
Sheepfolds, a Treatise on, 438
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, q. lxii; cr.
cxxvi

Shenstone, William, 611; q. lxxiv; cr.
lxvii, lxxii

Sheridan, R. B., 349, 368, 397, 467; q.
279, 284, 488, 574

Sheridan, T., q. 151, 476
Sheridan's Works, 467
Short paragraphs, 194
Short words, 386

Should and would, lxx-lxxiii

Shuldham, E. B., q. 557

Sick King in Bokhara, q. 635

Sidney, Philip, 476, 594; q. 290; cr.
94, 95

Signatures, 200

caution as to, 201
Silence, 145

Silver by mail, 186
Simeon, 524

Simile, 602, 605; adaptability, 607;
belittling, 606; condensed, 613;
force of, 619; trite, 606

Simonides, 612
Simplicity, affected, 442; excessive,
443; must not seem condescen-
sion, 443; of expression, 439;
of thought, 437; s. triteness,
445

Sincerity, 448, 511
Sing-song, 572
Skoda, Prof., 56

Slang, 371; uses of, 375

Small pages, 194

Smith, Albert, cr. 391

Smith, C. J., cr. lvi

Smith, G. B., cr. 396
Smith, Goldwin, 143

Smith, Sydney, q. xcviii, 3, 9, 17, 45,
54, 62, 67, 69, 72, 85, 104, 105,
114, 116, 119, 120, 128, 129, 130,
197, 221, 266, 324, 347, 380, 386,
388, 416, 439, 460, 467, 487, 489,
539, 609, 610; cr. 43, 125, 135
So, lxxxvii

Speaker, the character of a, 509
Spectator, The, 466, 483; q. 346, 358,

443, 468, 480, 529; cr. lxxxii,
cxxvi, cxxvii, 294, 392, 417, 618
Spectroscopic Analysis, 494
Spencer, Herbert, 434; q. xxxiii, xxxv,
xci, cxxxi-cxxxv, 215, 225, 289,
357, 459; cr. xlvi, 97-100

Spenser, Edmund, 631, 639, 640; q.
354, 635, 640

Spenserian stanza, 640
Splitting of particles, lx
Spontaneity, 538

Springfield Republican, q. cxiv; cr.
xxxii

Staël, Mme. de, q. 16, 25, 123, 289, 290
Standards of pronunciation, 162
Stanley, Dean, 115

Stedman, E. C., cr. cxxv
Steele, Richard, 133, 468, 611; q. 287;
cr. lxxii, cxxxvii

Stephen, Leslie, 415; cr. xxxvi, cxxvi
Sterne, Laurence, 117; q. lxviii, 105,

272
Stock stories, 82
Stockhausen, M., 551
Stopping argument, 72
Stories as adjuncts, 81
Stories in argument, 81
Stormont. Lord, 349

Story-telling, 81-90, 208, 240, 241
Stuart, Charles James, 481
Stuart, James, 481

Stress, 570

Style, 342; definition of, 344; natu-
ralness, 346; purity, 353; quali-
ties of, 351

Subdivision, 312; specimen, 314
Subject, xvii, xviii-xxiv, cix, cxxvii;
summarized, xxiv
Subjective element in poetry, 598

Superlative degree, xxix-xxxi

Superlatives avoided, 227
Superscriptions, 181, 203
Surrey, Earl of, 640
Sweetened reproof, 58

Swift, Jonathan, 126, 133, 372, 603,
611; q. lxxiii, 5-7, 43, 129, 236,
267, 487, 488, 523, 613; cr. xxix,
xxx, lxxi, ciii, cxvi, cxvii, cxviii,
cxxx, 11, 68, 232, 272, 412, 426
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, q. 282,
288

Sympathy, 149, 237

Synecdoche, 602, 604, 611
Synonyms, 399

The one, the other, xxxviii
Themistocles, q. 487, 511
Theodolite, the, 435
Theodoric, 483

Theories of the ludicrous, 93–104
pleasure, 104

Thesaurus of English Words, 401
This, xix, xxxv, xxxviii-xl
This, the other, xl

Tholuck, Friedrich, cr. 618
Thompson, D. W., q. 222
Thomson, James, 603, 640
Thorn, The, 443
Thought-quickening, 237
Three black crows, 36
Throat, sore, 557; protection of, 558
Thurber, S., q. 312
Tibullus, 439

Tickell, Thomas, q. xviii
Tillotson, Archbishop, 569; cr. 416
Times-Democrat, 625

Titles, 203, 438

Usage, national, 353, 366; present,
353; reputable, 353, 371

Usages of society, 7, 9, 10

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, 564
Vanbrugh, Sir John, cr. 391, 394
Vandenhoff, George, q. 162, 571
Vanity, 138, 144, 216, 510

Variety, 470; in diction, 470; in move-

ment, 471; in verse, 636

Vasa, Gustavus, 405

Velvet glove, the, 455

Venantius Fortunatus, 521

Venus and Adonis, 366

Verbal nouns, xxiv

Verdant Green, 173

Vere, Schele de, q. 372, 374, 425, 538

Versification, 633

Verstegan, Richard, q. 354

Very" to be avoided, 227

Vincent of Lerins, q. 336

What to write, 173
"What-we-do matters," 174
Whately, Richard, q. cxxxi, 63, 133,
236, 246, 250, 251, 312, 419, 422,
435, 437, 440, 456, 462, 465, 487,
507, 510, 511, 512, 520, 522, 523,
525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 533,
539, 567, 611, 612, 615, 621, 632;
cr. xxxiii, cxxvii, 416, 462, 623
Which, evi, cvii

Whipple, Edwin P., q. 107, 108
White, Richard Grant, 164, 371; q.
xxiii, lx, lxvi, lxxii, 157, 384;
cr. xxxi, lxxxi, ciii, 394

Whitefield, George, cr. 452, 548
Whitman, Walt, 630

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 315, 317

Who, cvii

Whose, xliv

Wilkie, David, 611

Will of the audience, 533

"William Henry" letter, 175

William Rufus, 494

Williams, James, cr. xxix

331, 512, 514

Virgil, 439

Virtue, composition on, 306
Vocabulary, xxvii; an extensive, 401
Vociferousness, 66

Voice, the, 547; acquirement of a
good, 548; hygiene of, 566; an
interpreter, 559; loudness, 566;
physiology of, 548; pitch of,
554, 557, 566, 567; preservation
of, 556; proper use of, 550;
strength of, 547
Voltaire, q. 171, 288

WAKEMAN, G., q. 233
Walpole, Horace, 619

"Ward, Artemas," 112; q. cxiv, 488
Ward, Dr., q. 453

Washington, George, q. 287

Watts, A. A., q. 438

Watts, Dr., 521

We, 500

Weather as a topic, 253

Webster, Daniel, 16, 71, 343, 506, 540,
566, 610; q. 284; cr. 452, 538
Weinberg, Isaac, 370

Weiss, John, q. 117, 124, 134, 620; cr.
85, 103, 120

Westminster Review, cr. cxix, 420
What constitutes poetry, 587
What to tell, 212

Willis, N. P., 360
Wilson, John, q. 282
Wineglass, The, 483

Winter Day on the Prairie, A, 589
Winthrop, R. C., q. 272
Wisdom of learning, 23
Wise, Governor, cr. 618
Wit, 317, 513

Wit and humor, 113-136
Wither, George, q. lxvi
Witty compliments, 53
Wolfe, Gen. James, 139
Wolsey, Cardinal, Couplet on, 479
Wood, Mrs. Henry, cr. 365
Worcester, Joseph E., q. lii, 291
Worcester's Dictionary, cr. 393
Wordsworth, William, 43, 139, 266,
272, 439, 595, 597, 598, 640; ¶
lxvi, lxxi, 592, 627, 635, 641;
cr. 443. 469, 475

Wotton, Sir Henry, 611
Writing discourses, 537
Written analysis, 541
Wycherley, William, q. 284

Ab-bre'vi-äte, v. t. To shorten; to abridge; to contract. Ab-bre'vi-a'tion, n. Act of shortening; contraction.

Ab-nôr'mal, a. [Lat. ab, from, and norma, a rule.] Not conformed to rule; irregular.

Ab'so-lute, a. Not limited; unconditional; complete; arbitrary; despotic; positive; peremptory. Ab'stract, a. Separate; existing in the mind only; abstruse; difficult. -n. An abridgment or epitome. Ac-çent, n. Modulation of voice; superior stress of voice on a syllable; a mark to regulate pronunciation, distinguish magnitudes, etc. Ac-çess'i-ble, a. Capable of being approached.

Ac-côrd'ançe, n. Agreement; harmony; conformity.

Ac-cu'mu-late, v. t. To heap together. -v. i. To increase; to be augmented.

Ac-cu'mu-la'tion, n. Act of accumulating; a heap.

Ac'cu-ra-cy, n. Exactness; correctness; closeness.

Ac'cu-rate, a. Done with care; without error.-SYN. Correct; precise; just. A-çerb'i-ty, n. Bitterness of taste or of spirit. Ad'ap-ta'tion, n. The act of adapting or fitting; suitableness; fitness. Ad'e-quate, a. Fully sufficient; equal; proportionate; correspondent. Adjunct, n. Something joined to another.-a. Added to, or united with. Ad'u-la'tion, n. Excessive or servile flattery.

Af-firm'a-tive, a. Affirming; declaratory; confirmative.-n. That which contains an affirmation.

Ag'gre-gate, v. t. To collect. Ag-grieve', v. t. To afflict; to oppress or injure; to harass. Al-loy', n. A compound of two or more metals; a baser metal mixed with a fine.-v. t. To debase by mixing.

Al-ly', n. [Lat. ad, to, and ligare, to bind.] One united to another by treaty, or by any tie; a confederate. -v. t. To unite by compact. Al'ter-că'tion, n. Warm contention in words; controversy; wrangle; dispute.

meaning. Am-big'u-ous, a.

Al'ter-na'tion, n. Act of alternating; reciprocal succession. Am'bi-gu'i-ty, N. Doubtfulness of Of uncertain meaning; doubtful; equivocal. A-nǎl'o-gy, n. Agreement between things which are in most respects entirely unlike; proportion. A-nal'y-sis, n. (pl. A-nal'y-sēs.) Resolution of any thing into its constituent elements.

An'a-lyze, v. t. To resolve into first principles or elements. A-năt'o-mize, n. To divide into the constituent parts, for the purpose of examining each by itself. An'ec-dōte, n. A short story or incident.

An'nals, n. pl. A chronological history; chronicles. An-tag'o-nist, n. An opponent; a competitor; a contender.-a. Counteracting; opposing. An'te-çēd'ent, n. That which goes before.-a. Going before in time.SYN. Prior; preceding; previous; anterior; foregoing.

An-tiç'i-pāte, v. t. To take or do before; to foretaste.