In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz:
To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who
have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning nor the opportunity the
learning nor the inclination to persue elaborate and abstruse treatises on
Rhetoric, Grammar and Composition. To them such works are as gold enclosed in
chests of steel and locked beyond power of opening. This books has no pretension
about it whatever,-it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas
of style, nor a grammar full of arbitray rules and