What is Your Object in Studying English? 1
A Few Warning Words 3
Two Dictionaries Recommended 6
How to Read the Dictionary 9
Good Pronunciation 12
English Pronunciation is English 15
What to Read 18
Reading Aloud 21
Do You Read the Preface? 25
Can You Read Englishmen's English? 28
Verse and Poetry Distinguished 30
A Few Terms of Prosody Explained 33
About Composition"Don'ts" 36
An Easy Sentence to Study 38
Idiom and Slang 41
Logic and Usage 44
A Special Use of Quotation-Marks 47
Double Negatives in Current English 49
What Does"Would of Come"Mean? 51
"No!No!NO!" 53
Language and Impression 56
Lying without Deceiving 59
Puns and Punning 62
What is Humour? 65
Irish Bulls 68
Repartees 71
Do You See the Point of the Joke? 74
Can You Guess a Riddle? 76
The Familiar Essay 79
Headings in Newspapers 82
Headings and Sub-headings 85
The Beginning is a Summary 88
Some Common Expressions in News Items 91
Letters from Correspondents 95
Letters to the Editor 98
Leaders and Leaderettes 101
The Book Page 104
The Woman's Page 107
Dramas,Movies,Etc 111
Advertisements 115
Wanted—A Guide to Idiomatic English for Chinese Students 119
Reading to Learn the Art of Expression 122
About the Study of Grammar 125
Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong 128
A"Foolish"Principle of Composition 130
An Aid to Composition 133
Some Mistakes to Consider 135
Some More Mistakes to Consider 137
Make the Word Your Own 140
Words that Are Too Often Used 142
Metaphorical and Plain Idioms 144
Are You a Votary of Mrs Malaprop? 147
A Warning Regarding the Use of Words 150
What"Literary English"Means 152
Simplicity and Affected Simplicity 154
Love of Commercialisms 157
The Compound-Prepositional Style 160
Imitation,Good and Bad 163
Paraphrase as an Exercise in Composition 166
Composition and Compositions 169
On English Letter-Writing 172
A Few Points of Form in Letters 175
Never Mind the Shortness 178
Three Popular Superstitions 181
The That-Clause in Letters 183
Notes on Some Common Words in Letters 186
Two Friendly Letters 189
On the Europeanization of the Chinese Language 192
Some Fragments of Pai Chü-I's Poetry Concerning Women 199
Some Longer English Lyrics 206
How to Study English 230