The Happy Phrase A Handbook of Phrases for the Enrichment of Conversation, Writing, and Public Speaking Compiled and Arranged by Edwin Hamlin Carr 16°. $1.00 HIS book is something more than a refer THIS ence book of phrases; it has a bit of the nature of a text-book in that one may study its phrases with the view to improvement of conversation. When the mind is filled with good phrases, they will spring spontaneously to the lips as do good words. The entire book should be read in search of phrases that appeal to one's own taste, and these phrases should be committed to memory. Even without definite effort to memorize the phrases, but simply by the mere perusal of them at odd moments, one's conversational powers will receive stimulation. G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London |