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Warman's school-room friend;practical suggestions on reading, reciting and impersonating. (Not a treatise on elocution.)

Watson's manual of calisthenics:a systematic drill-book without apparatus, for schools, families, and gymnasiums.

Watts's compleat spelling-book,in three parts. Part I. Containeth Mr. Munday's New Improvements, for the Right Accenting of Words, in variety of Tables, from one to seven Syllables: with Praxes on Words of different Syllables: Also Portions of Scripture, from the Psalms, Proverbs and New Testament. Part II. Containeth, the Principles and Rules of pronouncing our Mother Tongue, both in Prose and Verse, in great variety of Examples, Containing, sure and easy Directions for Reading. Part III. Lessons for Children, out of the Historical Parts of Scripture; as also, a short History of England, from the Norman Conquest, to his Present Majesty's Accession to the Throne: As also Mr. Clark's Directions, for Writing the Round Hand, and Round Text, and the Italian Hand, with several other Things for the Improvement of Children. With ingraved Copies, taken from the standard Rules, by Mr. Bickham.

Webster's reciter, or, Elocution made easy :plainly showing the proper attitudes of the figure, the various expressions of the face, and the different inflexions and modulations of the voice ... : also containing choice selections of the most thrilling, passionate, heroic, and patriotic speeches and poems ...

Weld's English grammar :illustrated by exercises in composition, analyzing and parsing

Weld's progressive English grammar :illustrated with copious exercises in analysis, parsing, and composition : adapted to schools and academies of every grade

The well of English and the bucket,

The well-Bred scholar,or practical essays on the best methods of improving the taste, and assisting the exertions of youth in their literary pursuits. By William Milns, Member Of ST. Mary Hall, Oxford; Author Of The Penman's Repository And Linguist's Treasure, &c. And Master Of The City Commercial School, George-Yard, Lombard-Street.

A well-planned course in reading with elocutionary advice;arranged for the use of classes in elocution and reading,

Wells of English.

Werner's selections with elocution lessions, no. 1.

Werner's voice magazine.

West-country poets:their lives and works. Being an account of about four hundred verse writers of Devon and Cornwall, with poems and extracts.

The westminster spelling-bookor, a child's first book, on a new plan. Being The Most Natural, Simple, And Engaging Introduction To Spelling And Reading, Ever Yet Published; Adapted to the meanest Capacity, and calculated so as to attract the Attention, please the Imagination, and engage the Affection of Children, while it cheats them into the Path of Learning. The whole being airy, easy, and agreeable, To Youth Of Both Sexes. To Which IS Prefixed, A Dedication, And AN Address To The Public.

What is English?A book of strategy for English teachers,

What is rhythm?An essay.

The whole art of the stagecontaining not only the rules of the drammatick art, but many curious observations about it, which may be of great use to the authors, actors, and spectators of plays : together with much critical learning about the stage and plays of the antients

Why is it that Scotland, England, Ireland, Greece, Rome, Palestine, Arabia, and young America have all had first-rate poets, while many other countries never had any?

Wieland's translation of Shakespeare,

Wiley's elocution and oratory:giving a thorough treatise on the art of reading and speaking. Containing numerous and choice selections of didactic, humorous, and dramatic styles, from the most celebrated authors ...

William Browne; his Britannia's pastorals and the pastoral poetry of the Elizabethan age.

William Shakespeare, prosody and text;an essay in criticism, being an introduction to a better editing and a more adequate appreciation of the works of the Elizabethan poets,

Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560;

Winning declamations and how to speak them ...Part I--for intermediate and grammar grades; part II--for high schools and colleges.

Word gossip :a series of familiar essays on words and their peculiarities

Word lessons :a complete speller adapted for use in the higher primary, intermediate, and grammar grades : designed to teach the correct spelling, pronunciation and use of such words only as are most common in current literature, and as are most likely to be misspelled, mispronounced, or misused, and to awaken new interest in the study of synonyms and of word analysis

Word mastery:a course in phonics for the first three grades,

Word primer.A beginner's book in oral and written spelling.

Word stress in English:a short treatise on the accentuation of words in Middle-English as compared with the stress in Old and Modern English,

Word study and English grammar, a primer of information about words, their relations and their uses,

Word study for high schools,

Word study in the elementary school,

Word-building.Fifty lessons, combining Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon roots, prefixes, and suffixes, into about fifty-five hundred common derivative words in English, with a brief history of the English language.

Word-building:for the use of classes in etymology.

Word-order in English verse from Pope to Sassoon,

Words and their uses, past and present;a study of the English language,

Words and their ways in English speech,

Words in singing :a practical guide to the study of phonetics, and its application to song.

Words we misspell :ten thousand terms, showing their correct forms and divisions as used in printing and writing, with rules governing the orthography of English words

Wordsworth and Tolstoi and other papers

Wordsworth's unacknowledged debt to Macpherson's Ossian.

Wordsworths' prefaces and essays on poetry :with letter to Lady Beaumont. (1798-1845)

The workes of Beniamin Ionson