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This book purposes to be what the title implies, "A Modern Rhetoric," a working text-book primarily designed for class-room drill. The teacher, therefore, will not find in it the old-time formal treatise on rhetoric, but, on the contrary, the practical application of the leading principles which underlie good composition.

The plan of the book is psychologic. Informal composition is taken up almost at the beginning, and is treated broadly as a whole before the closer study of sentences and paragraphs is introduced. The pupil is thus encouraged to express himself freely, before he is required to write, as Quintilian puts it, "with force, point, and vehemence of style." The stages through which he passes from elementary to formal composition are easy and gradual. All help is given to make him feel that composition is a practical and profitable exercise, and that it is not a task to be performed grudgingly and painfully.

The method of treatment is analytic. Few of the old stereotyped rules are given, but essential principles are drawn from an examination of carefully chosen extracts, and the application of these principles is taught by means of abundant exercises.

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