PRACTICE WORDS, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING RULES FOR SPELLING, RULES FOR CAPITALS, ETC. BY J. WILLIS WESTLAKE, A. M., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, KC 10898 HARVARD Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. IN N teaching orthography, the want is often felt of a collection of just such words as a student needs to study, unencumbered by those of which he is already master, or which are so rarely employed as to be of but little use to him. The spelling-book and the dictionary are too large; a person has to go over too many words to find the ones he needs. This little work is printed to supply the want here indicated. It was originally prepared for the use of the author's own classes; but as an unexpectedly large demand for it has rendered a new edition necessary, he has embraced the opportunity to make such corrections and additions as a year's trial of the work has suggested, and as will more fully adapt it to the wants of schools everywhere. A statement of its plan and nature will be found in the Introduction, to which the reader's attention is invited. In this enlarged form, it is offered to the public, with the hope that it will contribute in some slight degree to the removal of that reproach of American schools, bad spelling. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, July 4, 1874. J. W. W. |