Excerpt from Putnam's Minute-a-Day English for Busy PeopleA book of supper-table fun, language games, for school and home, items for the day's last minutes, founded upon the law of association, the law of emphasis, correct forms of expression, and the preferred pronunciation and Spelling.It is my contention that a person interested in securing an accurate and effective form of English expression can accomplish this if he will give to the task at least one minute a day.The law of association makes it an easy mat ter to remember the birthday of anyone if that birthday comes, for instance, upon April first.Where the correct form only of an expression or of a word is given, the mind can work rapidly, confidently, and easily. Hence the elimination, so far as possible, of all incorrect words and expressions, all forms of Do not say. Here the incorrect forms appear, if at all, in the titles.William Dean Howells is a stout opponent of those novelists who. Under the pretext of reforming their readers, write books about vice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.