Describir: Advanced course of composition and rhetoric: a series of practical lessons on the origin, history, and peculiarites of the english language, functuation, taste, the pleasures of the imagination, figures, style and its essential properties, criticism, and the various departments of prose and poetical composition; illustrated with copious exercises. Adapted to self-instruction, and the use of schools and colleges / by G. P. Quackendos, LL. D., principal of "The Collegiate School," N. Y.; author of "First lessons in composition," "An english grammar," "First book in grammar," "illustrated school history of the United States," etc.