If you read a foreign language, whether laboriously or with ease, you should make this power assist you to amass a good English vocabulary.

The resident gentry were connected with good English families and lived on their great lands after a fashion almost patriarchal.

The young girl rose, and, putting the baby down on a pile of skins, spoke to them in good English, saying quietly: "You are welcome.

As one of the chief values of the exercise is the familiarity with good English which it gives, I need not say that especial attention must be paid to the phraseology in which the story is clothed.

"Because I could explain it better in Spanish," he continued, as if by way of apology; but he went on in perfectly good English: "If you put one of them under your pillow, and think of some one you would like very much to see,some one who has been dead a long time,you will be likely to dream of him.

"Those are real leaves the ants carry," explained the guide, who spoke very good English.

We take it from the Florida Herald, June 23, 1838: Ranaway from my plantation, on Monday night, the 13th instant, a negro fellow named Ben; eighteen years of age, polite when spoken to, and speaks very good English for a negro.

I read "Les Miserables" last winter, and got greatly interested in it; whether there is a good English translation, I do not know.

Are there now instances to which an intelligent critic may point, and say, "This man, or that, though he can scarcely write a page of good English, has patched up a grammar, by the help of Murray's text only, and thereby made himself rich?"

If a and one were equal, we could not say, "Such a one,""What a one,""Many a one,""This one thing;" and surely these are all good English, though a and one here admit no interchange.

"I visited Europe before I returned to America," or, "I visited Europe, and afterwards returned to America," is good English, and not to be improved by any change of tense; yet here too we see the visiting "was completed before" the return, or HAD BEEN COMPLETED at the time of the return.

REICHART, ROBERT R. The foundations of good English.

Extending good English.

Applying good English.

PERRIN, PORTER G. Using good English.

Writing good English.

SEE MASTERING GOOD ENGLISH.

Arthur Durham Divine (A); 16Jun71; R507478. DIX, FLOYD E. SEE Mastering Good English.

SEE O'BRIEN, JOHN A. Using good English.

Good English for everyday use.

" All the orders and names were there, certainly, written in a clear, fair hand, and in perfectly good English.

Mr. Scott for many years issued monthly a series of pamphlets, all heretical, though very varying in their shades of thought; all were well written, cultured, and polished in tone, and to this rule Mr. Scott made no exception; his writers might say what they liked, but they must have something to say, and must say it in good English.

XX FINAL One would suppose that a democracy which believes in the absolute panacea of law-making would take particular pains with the forms of its legislation, to have its statutes clear, in good English, not contradictory, properly expressed and properly authenticated.

Language, like manners, is learned for the most part by imitation; and a person who is familiar with the language of reputable writers and speakers will use good English without conscious effort, just as a child brought up among refined people generally has good manners without knowing it.

Nevertheless there must always be certain technical terms, such as chassez croisez, glissade, &c., &c., for which it would be difficult to find good English equivalents.