WITH AN EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS, ADDITIONAL Words for BY THOMAS D. SUPLÉE, HEAD MASTER OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE, BENICIA, CALIFORNIA. NEW YORK A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON 714 BROADWAY 1887 PREFATORY NOTE. T is now twenty-six years since Dean Trench's book IT "On the Study of Words was first given to the public. Originally addressed to the pupils of the Diocesan Training School at Winchester, in the shape of lectures, and retaining that form in publication, the book was but poorly adapted for use in the school-room as a text-book. The editor has long deplored this, in common with many other teachers; hence no apology is necessary for the appearance of the present volume. The advantages claimed for it, over all other editions, are about as follows: 1. A complete and exhaustive analysis of the revised text has been added. 2. A set of questions has been prepared, designed not only to call forth the facts stated by the author, but also to follow up lines of thought suggested by him. 3. At the end of each lecture a list of words has been added, illustrating its various topics, and intended to encourage original research on the part of the pupil. The new arrangement or the text, analysis, and questions cannot fail to be of great assistance both to the teacher and pupil. It is recommended that the latter be compelled to commit the outlines and exercises to memory, place them on the blackboard, and then, assuming the rôle of lecturer, proceed to expand the leading ideas. In this way the best results of the analytical method of teaching are secured, and the pupil is trained to think and talk while on the floor. As these helps have already been of great service to the editor in the work of teaching, it is hoped that they may also assist others, now that they are associated with the following lectures. THOMAS D. SUPLÉE. BENICIA, CAL., July 4, 1877. |