Should, follows same rules as shall, 63;
sometimes used in its original sense
of ought, 63. See Shall and will.
Shrub, 27.
Shunt, 33.

Shunt, or switch, 15.
Sidewalk, 15.
Siesta, 27.
Sight, 94.

Sign, argument from, defined, 354;
explained, 373, arguments vary in
force, 374; fallacious arguments
from, 375; argument from, op-
posed by that from antecedent
probability, 376; combined with
that from antecedent probability
and that from example, 376; place
in arrangement of proof, 383.
Significance, Signification, distin-
guished, 39.

Silence, testimony of, 338.
Silver's death, 50.
Silverite, 32.

Similes, 117-128: distinguished from
metaphors, 118; reason for fre-
quent superiority of metaphors to,
118; when preferable to met-
aphors, 120; position of, when
combined with metaphors, 122;
position of, with relation to literal
assertions, 196.

Simplicity, the rule of, 20; in per-
suasion, 397.

Sincerity, in persuasion, 398.
Singular number wrongly used for
plural, 54.

Singular subject with plural verb, 55.
Singular verb, with plural subject,
55; with subject plural in form
but singular in sense, 56; with
collective nouns, 57.
Siren, 99.

Sitten, 23.
Size up, to, 17.
Skatorial, 34.

Skedaddle, to, 17.

Skilful repetition, 150.

Slang, short life of, 32; poverty of
language the source of much, 75;
modern use of, vulgar, 75.
Sleeper, for sleeping-car, 17.
Sleigh, 14.

Slice, for fire-shovel, 12.
Sloop, 27.
Slur over, 20.
Smart, 12.

SMITH, ADAM, 370.

SMITH, ALEXANDER, 196.
SMITH, GOLDWIN, 135, 179.

SMITH, SYDNEY, 391-394.

Smoke, smoking, Addison's use of,
10, 11.
Snob, 33.

So, pleonastic, 158.
Socialist, 32.

Society, environment, and tendency,
for the world, the flesh, and the
devil, 109.
SOCRATES, 330.
Sofa, 27.
Soften off, 20.
Soft-shell, 32.

Solecisms, violations of good use,
25; section on, 48-72: defined,
48; errors in use of foreign nouns,
49; the possessive case, 49; nomi-
native or objective case, 50; than
whom, 51; pronouns in -self, 52,
pronoun without grammatical
antecedent, 52; misuse of either,
neither, the former, the latter, 54,
can for may, 58; shall and will,
58-64; incorrect tenses, 64; in-
dicative or subjunctive mood, 66,
adverb or adjective, 67; wrong
preposition, 68; adverb with in-
finitive, 69; double negatives, 70;
omissions, 70.

SONNENSCHEIN, PROFESSOR, 66.
Sooners, 12.
Sophomore, 14.
Soubriquet, 28.

Sound, words that resemble each
other in, often confused, 37; that
suggests sense, 112; sense not to
be sacrificed to, 143.

Specific terms, compared with gen-
eral, 105-111 instances of supe-
rior value of, 106-108; not apt to
be bookish, 108.
"Spectator" (the), [XVIIIth Cen-
tury] 10, 34, 44, 49, 68, 78, 85, 136,
154, 167, 316, 338.
"Spectator" (the), [XIXth Century]
22, 34, 45, 51, 52, 53, 56, 89, 90, 135,
147, 159, 180, 187, 202, 209, 213,
301.

Squinting" construction, 181.
Stampede, 15, 27.

Stang, 3.

STANLEY, HENRY M., 47.
State, 94.

State-house, 14.

States, for United States, 12.
Stay, Stop, distinguished, 19.
Steal, as noun, 33.
Steam, to, 33.

15.

STEELE, RICHARD, 72, 85, 133, 136.
STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES,
68, 94, 332, 336, 345, 362, 386, 399.
STEPHEN, LESLIE, 130, 138, 345.
STERNE, LAURENCE, 245.

200, 285, 298, 344.

STEWART, DUGALD, 119.
STOCKTON, FRANK R., 285
Stoke-hole, or fire-room 15.
Stop, Stay, distinguished, 19.
Store, or shop, 14.

Stories, short, good examples oi
284-285.

STOWE, HARRiet Beecher, SYD.
Strange, 76..

Strata, for stratum, 49.
Street-car, or train, 15.
Strike a bonanza, 13.
Strike oil, 13.

Struggle for existence, 77.
Stunning, 75.

STURGES, JONATHAN, 284.
Style, idioms give life to, 5; diffuse,
145; Homeric, 160, of old English
ballad, 160; suggestive, 168-171;
exhaustive, 170; artificial, 207;
flowing, 234; décousu, 235; spe-
cific, 244, 245; bookish, 397; de-
clamatory, 397.
Subjective, 9.
Subjectively, 93.
Subject-matter, 23.

Subjunctive mood, distinguished
from the indicative, 66, in past
tense has a distinct form only in
the verb be, 66; indicative wrongly
used for, 67

Subordinate expressions, position of,

179.

Suffrage, to, 26.
Suffraging, 34.

Suggestive description. See Artistic
description.

Suggestive style, 168-171: defined,
169, success of, depends on skil
ful selection of particulars, 169:
examples of, 170-171.
Suicided, 34.
Suicidism, 34.

Sum and substance, 156.
SUMNER, CHARLES, 23.
"Sun" (the), 368.
Supernatural, 9.
Supplement, to, 33.
Supreme, for last, 43, 44.
Survival of the fittest, 77.
Suspenders, or braces, 14.
Suspicion, as verb, 26.

Swagger, as adjective, 17.

vocabulary, 77.

Sweat, 101.

Swell, as adjective, 17.

SWIFT, JONATHAN, 11, 23, 25, 26,
34, 47, 53, 132, 167, 245, 331, 375.
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES,
26, 76, 136.
Swingeing, for huge, 17.
Switch, or shunt, 15.

Syllogism, defined, 342; different
ways of stating, 342; abridged,

342-343.

TAINE, HENRI, 306, 324.
Take stock in, 12.
Talented, 11, 33.

Tap, or faucet, 15.

Tapis, on the, 16.

Taste. See Good taste.

Tasty, for tasteful, 33.
Tat, tit for, 5.

"Tatler" (the), 34, 117.
Tautology, 154-157.

TAYLOR, ZACHARY, message to Con-
gress, 47.

Team, defined, 41; wrongly used, 45.
Technique, 77.

Tediousness, fatal, 150.
Telegram, 23.

Telephone, 99.

Terms. See General terms, Specific

terms.

Terse, Forcible, distinguished, 41.
Test of good English, true, 7.
Testimony, evidence derived from,
335; of experts, 336; unwilling,
337; undesigned, 337; of silence,
338; concurrent, 339; direct and
circumstantial evidence, 339.
Tests of good English, false, 2.
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKE-

PEACE, 4, 10, 22, 44, 45, 54, 55, 67,
103, 133, 139, 167, 173, 186, 195,
245, 262, 271, 289, 299.
Than who, 51.

Than whom, 51.

"Times" (the), 23.
'Tis, 10.

Tit for tat, 5.

To, idiomatic use with infinitive o
substantive after perfect and plu
perfect tenses of be, 6; preferable
to unto, 21; wrongly used, 69;
and infinitive, adverb with, 69.
To and fro, 5.

To let, rather than to be let, 20.
To rights, for presently, 12.
To the fore, 77.
Toddy, 27
Tomahawk, 27

Tonsorial artist, 102.
Too, pleonastic, 158.
Tooth, Dental, 99.
Topsy-turvy, 4.
Tory, 33.

Toward, towards, 21.
Trace out, 20.

Tram, or street-car, 15.
Tramp (vagrant), 33.
Transaction, for compromise, 43.
Transcendental, 9.

Transition, ease in, 234-236, 239.
Transom (transom-window), 14.
Transpire, correct and incorrect use
of, 41.
Trapper, 14.
Travestie, 29.

TRENCH, ARCHBISHOP, 26, 45, 140.
Trend, 77.

TREVELYAN, G. O., 48, 71, 84, 295.
Trivial expressions in serious writ-
ing, 140.

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY, 43, 51, 55,
57, 68, 82, 90, 126, 127, 133, 135,
137, 139, 154, 157, 159, 185, 190,
199, 200, 285, 288, 326.
TROLLOPE, T. ADOLPHUS, 75.
Tropes, 114-132: defined, 114; the
very stuff of human language,
114; words at once literal and
figurative, 115; synecdoche and
metonymy, 116; similes and met-
aphors, 117-128; personification,
128-130; value and uses of, 131.
See Metaphors, Similes.
Trottoir, 16.

Truck, for garden produce, 12.
Truer, preferable to more true, 21.
Trunk, or box, 14.

Try, as noun, 33.
Tub, for bathe, 17.
Twain, 9.

TWAIN, MARK, 105, 166, 272.
"Twixt, 35.

TYNDALL, JOHN, 308.
Typo, for typographer, 35.

U.

UGLY, for ill-tempered, 17.
Umbrageous shade, 154.
Un bon parti, 30.

Unbeknown, for unknown, 26.

Underdone, or rare, 14.
Undersigned, the, for 1, 103.
Understanding, 9.

Undesigned testimony, 337.
Unionist, 32.

"United States English," 40.
Unity, in sentences, 208-216: mean-
ing and value of, 208; does not
depend on length or complexity
of sentence, 208; in substance of
sentence, 208-212; in expression
of sentence, 212-216; lack of,
caused by confusion of thought,
216; in paragraphs, 236-238; in
whole compositions, 239-243; Car-
dinal Newman's method of secur-
ing, 243; with variety, 244-246;
the kind of, which a young writer
should seek, 246; in exposition,
319-323; lack of, in sermons, 319,
322; the first requisite of an argu-
ment, 380.

Unprecedentedly, for without prece-
dent, 22.

Unquestionablest, for most unques-
tionable, 22.

Unravel, not throw light on, per-
plexities, 116.

Unrebukedly, for without rebuke,

22.

Unskilful repetition, 153.
Unto, to simpler than, 21.
Unwilling testimony, 337.
Unwipeupable, 34.
Up Salt River, 32.

Usage, British and American, 13-
15; divided, 17-24.

Use and misuse of connectives, 86.
Use, good. See Good use.

Use, national. See National use. -
Use, present. See Present use.

Use, reputable. See Reputable use.
Useful circumlocutions, 167.
Usual and ordinary, 156.

Usual English order not always the
best, 185.
Utterly, 75.

VALUES, 77.

Van, 34.

V.

VAN BUREN, G. M., 190.
VAN HELMONT, J. B, 2.

WEBSTER, DANIEL, 56, 132, 172,
174, 194, 197, 212, 219, 227, 310,
324, 327, 359, 366, 389, 395, 899.
Webster, John D., case of, 341.
Webster's "International Diction-
ary," 100.
Weird, 76.

WELLDON, J. E. C., 366.
Well-posted, for well-informed, 17
WELLS, WEBSTER, 329.
Wench, 10.

Wend one's way, 103.
WENDELL, BARRETT, 198.
WEYMAN, STANLEY J., 44, 45, 52, 76.
What for a, for what kind of, 43.
WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP, 94, 105.

112, 118, 123, 145, 191, 225, 33).
333, 338, 361, 364, 371.
Whence, preferable to from whence,

20.

Whether or no, 6.
Whew, 112.

Which, and that, choice between, a
question of euphony, 136; with
and, construction of, 138.
Whig, 33.

While, preferable to whilst, 21; mis-
use of, 89-90; repetition of, 135:
a useful connective, 148.
Whilom, 9.

Whip (a Parliament officer), 14.
WHIPPLE, E. P., 398.
Whip-poor-will, 112.
Whir, 112.
Whisper, 112.
Whit, not a, 5.

White murder case, 889.
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, 388.
Whiz, 112.

Who, than, 51; and that, choice be
tween, a question of euphony, 136.
Whole, the, distinguished from all.
41; wrongly used, 46.

Whole Compositions, 239-246:
clearness and force in, 239; ease
in, 239; unity in, 239-246; should
have variety, 244; should be inter-
esting, 246.
Wholesome, Healthy, distinguished,

38.

Whom, than, 51.
Wigwam, 14, 27.

Wild. 76.