The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to some Other Matters of Interest to Those who would Speak and Write with Propriety, by Alfred Ayres. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Published 1887 (©1881).
Alfred Ayres is a pseudonym for Thomas Embly Osmun (1826-1902).
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