The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-01-30
ABOUT GRAMMAR.
TO the Editor of the Higginsville Leader.

bDaLiNE SotNl1S ho.y iICCCilb'I ~. |
publish the following list of
English grammars for the information
of some of the many good teachers in
your county, who may not have had
an opportunity of seeing and eXamin-
ing any one or all of them: F. b. God
dard, Phi. ID. (Hary), Leach, Shewell
& Sanborn, Boston and New York.
VIM. II. Maxwell, A. NJ, PHI. d.,
Supt. Public instruction, Brooklyn,
N. Y, American Book Co. Whitney's |
Essentials of English Grammar, Gum
& Co.. Boston. Longman's School
Grammar, LOngman's Grammar Co.,
N. Y. Noble Buffers Practical and
Critical Grammar, revised and furnish
ed with very excellent system of dIsa
granting, simple and easy for learn
ers, John i. Morton 4 Co., Louisville,
Ky. The English Language, its Gram
mar, History and Literature, with
chapters on composition, versitication,
paraphrasing and punctuation, by j.
NJ. ID. Menklejohn, A. NJ, st. An
drews, Scotland; publishers. Health
4 Co., N. Y, Boston and Chicago.
Structures of the English Language,
by Prof. John Mulligan, A. NJ, ID.
Appleton Il Co., n. Y. The above
mentioned works are very critical and
scholarly. They are written by men
of great power by nature, experience
and education. Their authors live in
great educational centers, and they
are high in position. Mr.. Butler, of
Louisville, died few years ago. He
taught grammar in the Louisville high
school for thirty years, was teacher
of ability, and wide and critical educa-
ton. Much of the work to be done
by using the above grammars is for
the eighth and ninth grades in public
schools. Miss Hyde's Lessons in En-
| glish are the best for all lower grades,
except the Introductory works of
Southwark and Goddard, Longman
and Maxwell. Both of Longman 5
books are remarkable for the finest
and best scholarship of the age, as well
as being very practical. Their mechan-
ical finish and Typography are durable
and very neat. They contain "max-
imum of example, and u minimum OF
precept." Their style is forcible, con-
else and clear. Mulligan and Butler
are better for reference than for text
books in the school room. All these
works are very good on propositions,
conjunctions, adverbs and adv. con
june. the predicate of sentence, also
complex, compound and simple sen
tences. They are very good on all
kinds of subordinate clauses and their
connectiyes. The writer of this article
feels every teacher should have Butler,
Mulligan, and also Longman's gram
mars, if not all he has named above
LOngman's grammar will be easily
understood by any teacher of ordinary
scholarship. 1t is, however, very
sound in scholarship. Butler and Nlul
ligan are among the best, if not the
best, on the predicate, proposition,
conjunction, adverblal conjunctions,
and conjunctive pronoups, and all
subordinate clauses. They differ radi.
cally from many other grammarians
in regard to "is's" being Il mere
capula. They say if it is mere
J capula, he is here, ne is in the house
is in bad health, is there, can't vel
be disposed of according to stric,
analysis at all, neither can we tell the
time when we say, he was here, there,
J or was old, sick, or young, if is be 9
mere capula, but that all trouble i'm.
mediately vanishes, when we treat is,
was, and all other forms of the verb
/ to be, as nothing more nor less than
grammatical predicates, in all sen.
tences and clauses wherever found
J Prof. Whitney is one of the most dis.
tinguished scholars in America. His
reputation is not only national, but in.
ternational. He is teaching Sanskrlt
and modern languages in Yale college
also comparative philolOgy; he has
studied, read and lectured much lie
is the author in chief of the Century
Dictionary, just out, and it is consider,
ed the best representative of the En-.
, glish language by leading scholars in
Europe or America. He is now reyis.
ing his Essentials of English Gram,
mar. We may look for very fine
work on grammar when he brings out
his new grammar. His present work
published some years ago, is most
excellent grammar, but not well adapt.
! ed to school room use.
Yours truly,
JOHN w, SANDUSKY A. NJ