McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book

Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) McGuffey

{Transcribers Notes: Do you remember how to spell "pharmacopoeia" or "Winnipiseogee"?

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.