In the Literary Style, we use the signs named tha and tha, for the German sounds of ch and g (final). Since, however, we use them in the reporting style, in certain eaten, for distinction, and to form more facile outlines, their use, by the great number who never care to write foreign languages, cannot be objectionable, even in the Common Style. These forms are just the reverse of the alphabetic signs. They should be used only in cases where the other forms are inconvenient, as after Ra and En. They are used in the words they, than, then, birth, etc.; and are very convenient in certain phrases, as in, in the, on the, the way, the war.

We will add the following rule: Use Tha and tha after A, Oo, oo, and I; and Zhe, Ish, En, Ing and Ra; and before Wa, Ha, Be, Pe, Zhe, Ish, En, Ing, Ja, and Cha.

A similar inversion of these signs takes place in phonography, where the forms for th, th, f, and v are inverted and hooked to provide the signs for thr, fr, and vr.

Remarks. - When a word is found that occasions any difficulty, it should be studied carefully, and, when understood, rewritten until it is thoroughly mastered.

After the first ten lessons, the student should write from dictation. The reader should read very slowly at first, and gradually increase the speed with the ability of the writer.

The study of the reading exercises should keep pace with the writing. The reading and the writing are equally important; neither should be neglected for the other.

Exercise 23.

(a) Emit, improve, ambition, I'm, aim, among, motive, mutter, mile, mute. {b) La, lay, land, longitude, lewd, loud, lee, linnet, laurel, old, fool, pull. (c) Ray, radical, roll, raw, ruddy, ear, irrelevant, architecture, arrival, Ireland, endure, arouse, various, poor, carrier, ream, rill, run, raise, risk.

2. Wear, rare, pair, Tory, weary, worry, year, yore, your, territory, chair, jeer, germ, charm, cherry, tarry, door, doer, attire, tear, tare, emanation, emendation, mention, Delaware, intelligence, telegraph, infidelity.

Athens, bathing, writhe, soothe, tooth, wisheth, meaneth, singeth, fear-eth, the way, the war, the heart, the boy, the portion, the surest, the next, the just, the charter, the means, the best means, the day, the hour, the time, the form, the vice, the system, the easiest, the right, the right way, the wrong way, the credit, the germ, the claim, the grand, the glory, the praise, the blessing.