PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN ENGLISH

BY

HUBER GRAY BUEHLER

MASTER IN ENGLISH IN THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL

ARRANGED FOR USE WITH
ADAMS SHERMAN HILL'S
"FOUNDATIONS OF RHETORIC"

NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers
All rights reserved.
W.P. 17



PREFACE


The art of using one's native tongue correctly and forcibly is acquired
for the most part through imitation and practice, and is not so much a
matter of knowledge as of habit. As regards English, then, the first duty
of our schools is to set before pupils excellent models, and, in all
departments of school-work, to keep a watchful eye on the innumerable acts
of expression, oral and written, which go to form habit. Since, however,