EVERY ono apprecia.tes the vnJue of a correct use of language, nndyet the footing of grammar-the only- study in our schools that aimsto teach this-is very insecure. Children nre not enthusiastic inpraise of grammar, most parents recall without pleasure their owntrials with it, and many men of cultlUo and of wisuom openly adviseits banishment from the school-room.But two causes can be asRigncd for this wide-spread aversion togrammar. There must prevail a belief oither that there is anotherand n botter way to OOITect expression than that along which grammnrconducts one, or that the difficulties in this, the only path to it,nre so serious that few ever surmount them and rellch the desiredgoal.There is, we believe, no other 8Jld better way to correct writing andspenJdng; turning a child loose into the fields of literature will not,we are sure, put his feet upon such a road. De Quincey says thatthrough a circuit of prodigious reading he has met with only two orAbout the Publisher Forgotten...

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