By the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, M.A. TEXT-BOOK of ENGLISH GRAMMAR : a Treatise on the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language; including Exercises in Parsing and Punctuation: an Etymological Vocabulary of Grammatical Terms, and a copious List of the principal Works on English Grammar. New Edition, and thoroughly revised .12mo. 2s. 6d. EXERCISES in ENGLISH PARSING, Progressively arranged and adapted to the Author's Text-Book of English Grammar; with Questions suggesting a Course of Oral Instruction for Junior Pupils. Tenth Edition... PARAPHRASING .12mo. 6d. and ANALYSIS of SENTENCES, simplified for the use of Schools, forming a Manual of Instruction and Exercise for the use of Students, Teachers, &c..... .12mo. 18. 3d.-KEY, 18. 3d. SCHOOL MANUAL of LETTER-WRITING: Containing numerous Models of Letters on Commercial and other subjects; with Exercises in Epistolary Composition, Rules of Punctuation, Explanations of Abbreviated Titles, Commercial Terms, &c. 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INTRODUCTION to the WRITING of PRECIS or DIGESTS, as applicable to Narratives of Facts or Historical Events, Correspondence, Evidence, Official Documents, and General Composition: with numerous Examples and Exercises. Revised Edition............ .12mo. 28.-KEY, 18. To this edition a new chapter has been added, to explain and exemplify that kind of précis or abstract which reduces a series of letters or other detached pieces to a continuous narrative: a branch of précis-writing in which Candidates for the Civil Service Examinations are now generally required to possess readiness and proficiency. JOHNSON'S RASSELAS, with Introductory Remarks, Explanatory and Grammatical Annotations, Specimens of Interrogative Lessons › Answers to Examination-Questions, &c. New Edition, revised ........12mo. 2s. 6d. BACON'S ADVANCEMENT of LEARNING, Anno tated Summary of Books I. and II. with numerous Extracts from the Work and Specimens of Examination-Questions... .12mo. 28. 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MILTON, .12mo. 18.6d. with his high-soaring sentiments and lofty diction, is, perhaps the most involved and elliptical of our great poets, and it is this fact which has probably made him so great a favourite with the Civil Service Commissioners, who very frequently require a grammatical analysis of a passage in his works at the hands of candidates for the higher class of Government appointments. The latter should not, therefore, be without Mr. HUNTER'S valuable notes.' The CIVILIAN. SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE; the First Six Cantos of Book I. Unabridged and in the Old Spelling. With Explanatory and Illustrative Notes, including frequent Directions for Grammatical Analysis ........12mo. 28. words into the system of English speech. 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