Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work is intended to be a textbook for formal courses in public speaking and discussion; to provide a manual for literary and debating societies, and to give the ordinary worker, not a specialist in the subjects treated, suggestion and assistance. In these three classes the book will be of great value, as it states concisely the principal arguments, pro and con, on a large number of the important topics of the day; that it presents working bibliographies on these topics; and that it gives examples of logical statement, and suggests a systematic method for the treatment of other topics...
...books to be used in N. H. 3 are Gray's Manual of Botany, 6th revised edition, and Gray's Botanical Textbook, which consists of two volumes...