Abstract
This Review Essay is a tale of two books--the new sixth edition of the Texas Law Review Manual on Style2 and Merriam-Webster's new Dictionary of English Usage.3 For those who read book reviews only to find out whether the reviewer liked the book, let me be clear. One is a good book (the Dictionary of English Usage); the other is a bad book (the Texas Manual on Style). Now you may think that I shouldn't use words like good and bad to describe books because these words carry moral connotations that I surely don't intend. Ah, but I do. The Texas Law Review Manual on Style is a bad book in the same sense that The Total Woman 4 and Das Kapital 5 are bad books. Although the motives of their authors may have been good, these books have worked evil. In each an
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