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faults arise almost entirely from its being, as the title-page avows, a compilation.

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As usual, our statement of particular defects fills much more space than our general commendation, which we think it proper, therefore, to repeat, by stating it as our opinion, that the adoption of this little manual in schools, and even in the lower classes of our colleges, would, under the direction of judicious teachers, tend to great improvement in the art of composition, and to the diffusion of much useful information as to English literature. Mr. Boyd has evidently taken special pains to make the literary merits of the Bible, and the literature of our own country, duly prominent in his compilation, although chiefly drawn from British sources.

Similar notices and recommendations have appeared in the Albany Argus, Albany Evening Journal, Black River Journal, and other periodicals.

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LITERARY CRITICISM,

WITH COPIOUS

PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND EXAMPLES,

FOR THE

CSE OF COMMON SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIE&

COMPILED AND ARRANGED

BY PROF. JAMES R. BOYD, D.D.,

AUTHOR OF "ECLECTIC MORAL PHILOSOPHY."

EIGHTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

329 & 331 PEARL STREET,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1872.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844 by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE

TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

IN preparing this edition for the press, the compiler has sought to render his work more complete by adding PART VIII., supplementary to what appeared in the former editions, and particularly adapted to the wants of the more advanced students in common schools or academies. It will be found to embrace some of the more important and practical instructions found in works on Logic, and which properly belong to a complete treatise on the Art of Composition.

The whole work has been carefully revised, but it was found necessary to make only a very few alterations, and those so slight, chiefly col rections of typographical errors, that ro inconvenience will be experienced in using this edition with any of the former.

The compiler would take the liberty to add, that after a trial of one year in the institution under his care, during which several classes in the different departments, have been carried through the work, it has been found peculiar. Iv well adapted to the important objects for

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