BY

ALFRED H. WELSH, A.M.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ENGLISH IN THE OHIO STATE UNIVER-
SITY; AUTHOR OF DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND

LANGUAGE, ESSENTIALS OF GEOMETRY, ESSEN-
TIALS OF ENGLISH, ETC.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed, and argument put in order.—
JEREMY COLLIER

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches
most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not
content with serving up few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on
which they grew. - BURKE

CHICAGO

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY

DEDICATED

ΤΟ

GOVERNOR CHARLES FOSTER

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.-COWLEY