OF

ENGLISH COMPOSITION;

DESIGNED AS

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION

ΤΟ

ECTNESS AND PERSPICUITY IN WRITING,
AND TO THE STUDY OF CRITICISM:

WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

For the Use of Schools.

BY ALEXANDER REID, LL.D.,

d Master of the Edinburgh Institution; Author of Rudiments of glish Grammar, A Dictionary of the English Language, etc.

TEENTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED AND

ENLARGED.

EDINBURGH:

OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

1872.

250.

OF

ENGLISH COMPOSITION;

DESIGNED AS

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION

ΤΟ

CORRECTNESS AND PERSPICUITY IN WRITING,
AND TO THE STUDY OF CRITICISM:

WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.

For the Use of Schools.

BY ALEXANDER REID, LL.D.,

Late Head Master of the Edinburgh Institution; Author of Rudiments of
English Grammar, A Dictionary of the English Language, etc.

EIGHTEENTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED 4

ENLARGED.

EDINBURGH:

OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.