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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

JOHN P. MORTON AND COMPANY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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in class of persons think to show their superiority to the erd by speaking contemptuously of grammar. Like Mrs. ey are thankful that they are "no grammarians;" and if ood ground for thankfulness, it must be admitted that some ve much to be thankful for. The cant which is fashionable m is sometimes very amusing. Suppose, for instance, that n should conceive the idea of contending for the correctness is it at?" His argument would probably be in the following fullness of thought the common people show themselves the mere grammarian. 'Where is it?' expresses the idea mmarian's mind, it is true; but the man of the people feels bo full to be satisfied with so jejune an expression, and he is fullness in 'Where is it at?'"

pose the beauties of you is should strike his fancy. He will rse in the following strain: "Nothing but the prejudice of ns has prevented the adoption of you is in stead of the stiff cic you are. You being singular when it denotes but one, 1 to have it pretending to be plural! It may be said that s of the second person is is of the third; but shall we reject bus an expression for the sake of grammatical person? To xpressions incorrect English is to assume the point. No one la è is bad Italian, and that ella sei is good. Dr. Webster that you were should be changed to you was, and to be we should change you are to you is. Grammarians of the er may contend for you are; but go into the fields and the and you will find you is flowing from lips that disdain to be by grammatical rules."

ce of the grammar of a language is to state what the lanIf it does not do so, it is not grammar; if it does state what ge is, he who sneers at it may think that he shows his but he shows nothing but his vanity and presumption. himself as ridiculous as did Carlyle's "Sigismund super am," who when an error he had made in his speech was

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