A BRIEFER

PRACTICAL RHETORIC

BY

J. SCOTT CLARK, A.M.

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

"It is better to set ten men at work than to do ten men's work"

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1893

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TO HER WITHOUT WHOSE PATIENT HELPFULNESS THE FOL
LOWING PAGES COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PREPARED,

THEY ARE INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

AS AN ACT OF SIMPLE JUSTICE.