tures, and a different one for every exercise may be assigned to all or to each. Old magazines, post-cards, and such collections as the Perry pictures are available and afford a large variety for choice.

The recognition of publicity is also a solace and encouragement to students. Have a good piece of work read to the class; gather compositions into a book for exhibition or for presentation to some officer of the school; let the class or sections of it form boards of editors and issue a typewritten paper; appoint members daily or weekly to conduct a class diary according to some good model. The wider public out of class may be appealed to through exhibitions of various kinds, through authors' days, anniversaries, class displays. On these occasions let many read or deliver short compositions, rather than one or two give long papers. Wherever it can be done, publication in the local press is a great stimulus to a young writer.

Finally, contests enliven a class. Divide the class into sections and let them match qualities in different passages or reckon which of two passages has the larger number of instances exemplifying any precept. One single passage may serve the same purpose or one author may be pitted against another as a model of a particular quality. Again, several exercises may be read and a vote of the class be taken to decide what paper best reproduces the excellence of the model.

ANALYTICAL INDEX

THIS table serves the purpose of an index to all the terms defined and illustrated throughout the book. The table also sets forth the whole matter comprehensively, giving the connection and subordination of all the precepts; it is a practical aid for class reviews and for fixing necessary information in the memory. Its chief usefulness, however, will be found in the correcting of the exercises. The corrector, whether teacher or student, can note on the compositions the number of the section or the precept exemplified. Deficient students may by some distinctive mark be made to register on their assignments by number or term what precept they have violated. Should abbreviations of the terms be desired the initial letters may be used where there are two or more words, as R. W., Right Word. Where the term is a single word, the first three or four letters will serve, as, Cli., Climax; Meta., Metaphor.