Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-04-12
Hill's Manual.

We have received at the hands of the publishers,
Moses Warren & Co., l03 State St., Chicago,
large quarto volume, entitled "Hill's Manual of
Social and business Forms" being an extended
work treating on the correct method of writing
any description of document. The various chap
tiers in the book exhaust very completely in detail
the following subjects, namely:
Penmanship, which is very profusely illustrated
and accompanied by the finest of lithographic cop
ies along with explicit directions for self instruc
ton and the art of teaching.
Spelling, Punctuation, Use of Capital Letters
and the Rules Of Composition, are all treated quite
at length.
How to Write for the Press forms an important
chapter.
That portion of the book devoted to Letter
Writing represents near two hundred letters of
correspondence, including Letters of Business,
Applications for Situations, Letters of Recommen-
dation Introduction, Friendship, Love, &C., &C.
Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Cards and Notes
of Invitation to weddings. parties &C., together
with samples OF great variety Of visiting, busi-
ness, and plain and ornamental cards, form chap
ter that will be examined with great interest.
Commercial Forms represent Notes, Bills, Or
ders. Checks, Drafts, Receipts, Bills of Exchange
Due bills, &C., with the law of each State reatn.
to the legal rate of interest and days of grace.
Legal Forms present Articles of Agreement
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 model record Of one family. A
Dictionary in the work contains over 900 words,
giving spelling, definition and synonymous words
to enable the writer to avoid the inelegance of
peating the same word several times in sentence.
Shorthand writing is thoroughly illustrated
to make this chapter complete self-instructor in
this important art How to conduct public meet
ings according to parliamentary rules, drafting
resolutions, petitions to public bodies, form an
tended and important portion of the book. The
correct form of punctuating, lettering and word
ing for sign painting, tombstone inscriptions and
the purposes of engraving, is entirely new, and
forms valuable feature of the Manual. The
many alphabcts, the great variety of job-types, d
rections for proof-reading, &C., of especial SER
vice to literary people. The authorizations, statis
tcal tables, foreign words and phrases late postal
laws, dictionary of Christian names, &c, are all
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 fine style.
Thos. +. Hill, the author of this book, was for
fifteen years one of the most popular teachers of
penmanship in the United States, and more re-
Gently has been a very successful editor, newspa-
per publisher and business man, combining in
eminent degree the essential qualities of mind and
experience which are necessary to prepare such
comprehensive work.
The book is sold only by subscription. Mr. l..
l.. Leighton is the agent for the work in this vi
cinity. We predict for him gratifying success in
his canvass among our people.