The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-05
HILLS MANUAL,

We have received at the hands of the
publishers, Moses Warren & Co., 103 State
St., Chicago a large quarto volume, enti-
tied, Hills Manual of Social and Business
Forms" being an extended work treating
on the correct method of writing any de-
scription of document. The various chap
tiers in the book exhaust very completely in
detail the following subjects; namely:
Penmanship, which is very profusely H.
Illustrated and accompanied by the finest of
photographic copies, along with explicit di.
rections for selfinstruct1on and the art of
Spelling, Punctuation, Use Of Capital
Letters and the Rules Of Composition, are
all treated quite at length. ,ZC.'i, -
Hoy to Write for ';' the Press forms an i'm
That portion of the book devoted to Let
ter.Writing represents nearly two hundred
letters Of correspondence, including Letters
of Business, Applications for Situations,
Letters of Recommendation, Introduction,
Friendship, Love, &C., &c.
Wedding Ceremonies; Wedding Cards
and Notes of Invitation to Weddings, Par
ties, &C., together with samples of a great
variety of visiting, business and plain and
ornamental cards, form a chapter that will
be examined with great interest.
Commercial Forms represent Notes,
Bills, Orders, Checks, Drafts, Receipts,
Bills of Exchange, Due-bills, &C., with the
law of each State relating to the legal rate
of interest and days of grace.
Legal Forms present Articles of Agree
ment, Bonds, Bills Of Sale, Deeds, Leases,
Mortgages, Wills, &C., with the law of each
State concerning the amount of property
exempt from forced sale and execution and
limit of time in which an action must be
brought to recover debt.
Family Records are illustrated by mod
ell Record of one family.
A Dictionary in the work contains over
II 900 words, giving spelling, definition
and synonymous words to enable the writer
to avoid the inelegance of repeating the
same word several times in sentence.
Shorthand writing is so thoroughly IL
Illustrated as to make this chapter COM
plete selfinstructor in this important art.
How to conduct public meetings accord
ing to parliamentary rules, drafting resolu-
tions, petitions to public bodies, form an
extended and important portion of the
The correct form Of punctuating, lettering
and wording for sign painting, tombstone
inscriptions and the purposes Of engraving,
is entirely new, and forms+a. valuable fea-
ture of the Manual. :.
The many alphabets, the great variety
Of job-types, directions for proof-reading,
&C., are of especial service to literary peo-
The authorizations, statistical tables, for
eign words and phrases, late postal laws,
dictionary of Christian names, &C., are ali
important.
The rules for writing poetry, the rhym-
ing dictionary accompanied by the large
number of choice poems, will be especially
interesting to people of literary culture.
The book is printed in a style never sur
passed as book of the kind in this or any
other country.
The book is sold only by subscription.
Mr.. T. J. Gray is the agent for the work in
this vicinity. We predict for him a graft
flying success in his canvass among our peo-
pie.
H. r. D2,~l3o e.