Language Primer : Beginners' Lessons In Speaking And Writing English. PREFACE. This little work is designed to serve as a Primer, or beginners book in the study of our own language. In the new courses of study in most of our cities, lessons in writing and speaking English are begun quite early and this fact has disclosed the need of a small rnanual of suitable work, to be placed in the hands of young scholars as the accornpanimerit of the teachers oral instruction. The success of the authors Language Lessons a success without precedent in school book literature is the best assurance that the simple, untechnical, objective, and inductive mode of unfolding our speech will meet the views of intelligent teachers. W. S. CAJIBEIDGE, August, 1874.