Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-07-19

We have received at the hands of the pub
Usher, VIM. II. Shepard, 40 Broadway, New
York, a large quarto volume, entitled Hills
Manual of Social and Business Forms, being
an extended work treating on the correct
method of writing any description of docu-
ment The various chapters in the book eX-
haust very completely in detail the following
subjects, namely:
Penmanship, which is very profusely illus
trated and accompanied by the finest of litho-
graphic copies. along with explicit directions
for self-instructon and the art of teaching.
Spelling. Punctuation, Use of Capital
Letters and the Rules of Composition are all
treated quite Mt length.
How to Write for the Press forms an i'm
portant chapter.
That portion of the book devoted to Let
ter-Writing represents near two hundred let
ters of correspondence, including Letters of
Business, Applications for Situations, Letters
Of Recommendation Introduction, Friend
ship, &c, &c.
Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Cards and
Notes of Invitation to weddings. parties, &c,
together with samples of 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
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each State relating to the legal rate of inter
est 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 ex-
empt from forced sales and execution and
limit of time in which an action must be
brought TO recover debt.
Family Records are illustrated by a model
Record of one family.
Language of Flowers.-A floral dictionary
gives "A very complete vocabulary of almost
| every known flower, accompanied by its Ian
guage and sentiment, thus enabling the read,
or to carry forward an interesting and charm
ing conversation with flowers. This is an es-
| pecally attractive feature of the book
Dictionary in the work contains over II, e
| 600 words, giving spelling, definition and
synonymous words to enable the writer to
avoid the ineegance of repeating the same
word several times in sentence.
Shorthand writing is so thoroughly illus
trated as to make this chapter IL complete
self-instructor in this important art
How to conduct public meetings according
to parliamentary rules, drafting resolutions,
petitions to public bodies, form an extended
and important portion of the book.
| How to collect debt.-When debtor re-
fuses to pay, and it becomes necessary to re-
sort to law, what are the successive steps to
| be gone through to collect the debt? This
subject is very clearly presented in a chapter;
and to many this department would of itself
be worth the cost of the book
The correct form of punctuating. lettering
aud wording for sign-painting, tombstone in
scriptions and the purposes of engraving, il
| entirely new, and forms valuable feature OF
| the Manual
The many alphabets, the great variety OF
job-types, directions for proof-reading, &c,
are of especial service to literary people.
The Authorizations, statistical tables for.
eign words and phrases, dictionary of Chris
tian names, &C, are all important.
The rules for writing poetry, the rhyminl
dictionary accompanied by the large number
OF choice poems, will be especially interesting
to people of literary culture.
The book is printed in style never sur
passed as book of the kind in this or any
other country.
Thos. Z. Hill, the author of this book, wal
for fifteen years one of the most popular
teachers of penmanship in the United States
and more recently has been a very successful
editor, newspaper publisher and business
man, combining in an eminent degree the es
sential qualities of mind and experience which
are necessary to prepare such a comprehen
sive work
The book is sold only by subscription. Mr.
j. q. Tyler is the agent for the work in thi
vicinity. We predict for him n gratifying
success in his canvass among our people.