CONTENTS 1
1．What to Read 1
2．Reading Aloud 4
3．Can You Read Englishmen's English？ 7
4．What Kind of English？ 9
5．The Question of Background 12
6．Books on English and Books in English 15
7．An Easy Sentence to Study 17
8．What Does“Would of Come”Mean？ 20
9．“More Presently” 23
10．Double Negatives in Current English 26
11．About the Study of Grammar 28
12．Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong 31
13．The Language Is the Main Thing 34
14．Logic and Usage 37
15．Something Unnatural 40
16．A Good Knowledge of Bad English 43
17．Reading Dictionaries 47
18．Make Your Own Dictionary 50
19．Make Anothor Dictionary of Your Own 53
20．More about What to Read 55
21．Reading to Learn the Art of Expression 57
22．Learning English Conversation by Imitation 60
23．Imitation，Good and Bad 63
24．Tongue and Pen 66
25．Simply Didn't Know 69
26．So Many Points 71
27．How to Say It 75
28．A“Foolish”Principle of Composition 77
29．An Aid to Composition 80
30．Some Mistakes to Consider 83
31．Some More Mistakes to Consider 86
32．Better Short Than Long 89
33．Something More Important Than Enlarg-ing One's Vocabulary 92
34．Make the Word Your Own 95
35．A Warning Regarding the Use of Words 97
36．The Word 100
37．What“Literary English”Means 103
附：汉译文 109