1. I saw in the Evening Sun a review of a book about David Copperfield.

2. The Concert is a picture in the Pitti Palace.

3. Lohengrin is a great favorite.

4. We sailed on the Victorian.

5. He spoke extempore.

6. What is the writ of habeas corpus?

7. Write a story of life à la mode in a summer resort.

The Hyphen. The hyphen is used:

1. To separate the parts of a compound word.

fairy-like

water-craft
to-morrow

2. To divide a word at the end of a line.

Division should usually be made by syllables, according to pronunciation, but sometimes according to the derivation of the word. In case of doubt consult the dictionary. If there are two consonants, divide them; carry over the endings, ing, er, est, tion. The Apostrophe. The apostrophe is used as a sign of the possessive case, to indicate the omission of letters, and to form the plural of signs, figures, and letters.

Dot your i's and cross your t's.

EXERCISES

1. Explain the reason for the use of each capital and each mark of punctuation in the following pas

sages.

1.

Oh! mother! mother! You are come at last?" she threw herself, or rather fell, into the trembling arms of her long-lost, unrecognized Aunt Esther.

MRS. GASKELL: Mary Barton.

2. "Can you make old traditions?"

"Oh, yes! I made three, the other day, about the Rhine, and one very old one about the Black Forest. A lady with dishevelled hair; a robber with a horrible slouched hat; and a night storm among the roaring pines."

LONGFELLOW: Hyperion.

3. Group IV (Essays). Carlyle, Essay on Burns, with a selection from Burns's Poems; Macaulay, Life of Johnson; Emerson, Essay on Manners.

Requirements in Entrance Literature.

4. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices; poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË.

5. Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales. By Vernon Lee. Pp. 200. 12mo. London and New York: John Lane. $1.25 net, postage 10 cents.

6. But the daughter of Cadmus saw him, fair-ankled Ino, that goddess pale who formerly was mortal and of human speech, but now in the water's depths shares the gods' honors. She pitied Odysseus, cast away and meeting sorrow, and like a petrel on the wing she rose from the sea's trough, and lighting on his strong-built raft spoke to him thus:

"Unhappy man, why is it earth-shaking Poseidon is

so furiously enraged that he makes many ills spring up around you? Destroy you shall he not, however wroth he be! Only do this, you seem to me not to lack understanding. Strip off these clothes, and leave your raft for winds to carry, then strike out with your arms and seek a landing on the Phæacian coast, where fate allows you safety. Here, spread this wimple underneath your breast. It is immortal; have no fear of suffering or death. But when your hands shall touch the shore, untie and fling the wimple into the wine-dark sea, well off the shore, and so depart."

The Odyssey, Book V: trans. by G. H. PALMER.

7. Clasping her hands she said: "Oh, Señora,* have mercy! Do not say that to the Father!"

"It is my duty to tell the Father everything that happens in my family," answered the Señora, chillingly. "He will agree with me, that if you persist in this disobedience you will deserve the severest punishment. I shall tell him all;" and she began putting the trays back into the box.

"You will not tell him as it really is, Senora," persisted Ramona. "I will tell him myself."

"You shall not see him! I will take care of that! cried the Señora, so vindictively that Ramona shuddered.

"I will give you one more chance," said the Señora, pausing in the act of folding up one of the damask gowns. "Will you obey me? Will you promise to have nothing more to do with this Indian?"

"Never, Señora," replied Ramona; "never!"

"Then the consequences be on your own head," cried the Señora. "Go to your room! And, hark! I forbid you to speak of all this to Señor Felipe. Do you hear?"

HELEN HUNT JACKSON: Ramona.

* Pronounced sayn-yo'-ra.

2. Punctuate and capitalize the following passages:

1. what happiness if the door should not be locked but of course it is for in these great places the gardeners are the only people who can go where they like

jane austen mansfield park

2. she was seated across a donkey between a pair of glittering milk cans and as she went she kicked jauntily with her heels upon the donkey's side and scattered shrill remarks among the wayfarers it was notable that none of the tired men took the trouble to reply our conductor soon led us out of the lane and across country the sun had gone down but the west in front of us was one lake of level gold the path wandered a while in the open and then passed under a trellis like a bower indefinitely prolonged on either hand were shadowy orchards cottages lay low among the leaves and sent their smoke to heaven every here and there in an opening appeared the great gold face of the west

r1 stevenson an inland voyage

3. in yosemite valley one morning about two o'clock i was aroused by an earthquake and though i had never before enjoyed a storm of this sort the strange wild thrilling motion and rumbling could not be mistaken and i ran out of my cabin near the sentinel rock both glad and frightened shouting a noble earthquake feeling sure i was going to learn something the shocks were so violent and varied and succeeded one another so closely one had to balance in walking as if on the deck of a ship among the waves and it seemed impossible the high cliffs should escape being shattered

john muir our national parks

4. it is in vain sir to extenuate the matter gentlemen may cry peace peace but there is no peace the war is actually begun the next gale that sweeps from the north

will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms our brethren are already in the field why stand we here idle what is it that gentlemen wish what would they have is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery forbid it almighty god i know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death

patrick henry speech in the virginia convention march 1775