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.

ITEENTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REYISERT AND

ENLARGED.

EDINBURGH:
OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.

LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION;

DESIGNED AS

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION

TO

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 AND

ENLARGED.

BLIOT

EDINBURGH:
OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.

LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

1872.

g. 950