Discoloration of cover on spine and small tear at top Pages are aged, but all intact Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941, 345 pages Designed for freshmen English courses, this book "is an attempt to apply certain scientific and literary principles, or, as we may call them, semantic principles, to the thinking, talking, listening, and writing we do in everyday life." The chief source is the general semantics or non-Aristotelian system of Alfred Korzybski. Chapters are: the importance of language, symbols, reports, contexts, words that don't inform, connotations, directive language, how we know what we know, the little man who wasn't there, classifications, the two-valued orientation, affective communication, intensional orientation, rats and men, extensional orientation. Many chapters close with applications of the material discussed, and the final section includes readings from various sources which illustrate points made throughout the book