Hart

manual of Composition

Philadelphia

1877

A

MANUAL OF

COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC:

A Fest-Book for Schools and Colleges

BY

JOHN S. HART, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF HETORIC AND OF THE ENGLISH Y AGE AND LITERATURE IN THE
COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, LATE PRINCIPAL O THE W JERSEY STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL, AUTHOR OF A SERIES OF TEXT-RCOKS ON THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, CTC., ETC.

PHILADELPHIA:
ELDREDGE & BROTHER

No. 17 North Seventh Street.

PREFACE.

"THIS is, on the face of it, a fexu-book. It has been writI

ter for learners, not for the learned. Its object is, not o extend the boundaries of the science by excursions into lebatsble ground, but to present its admitted truths in a fm easily apprehended. By this statement, however, I do not wish to convey the idea that the treatise is unscientife

its character or its methods. I mean merely that I have poddiously avoided cumbering my book with the many a truse and still unsolved questions which environ the subret. Those questions are not without interest or value, and

w persons have a keener relia for their discussion the

the writer, whose life-long studies have been in that pe

ine of ingairy. But original investigation is felt

of place in a text-book for instruction in the

the same time, it is believed, the attent

aliar with the recent literature of