This textbook presents an eighth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time, furnishing the pupils with methodical instruction. A supplementary oral drill is provided for nearly every week in the school term. Each drill is intended to increase the vocabulary of the pupils and to afford practice in using the correct word or phrase at the proper time.