10 DECEMBER 1836, Page 18

A New English Grammar, by GEORGE KING, is a brief

com- pilation, as clear, perhaps, as such a subject can be made, though not very exact in its definitions. The only approach to novelty we have noted in glancing at it is, the author's rejection of neuter verbs, and arranging all under the head of transitive and intran- sitive. The change seems a needless refinement ; and, if rigo- rously tested, passive verbs are as much intransitive as neuters, at all events in languages that denote the manner of doing a thing by an expressed preposition instead of a termination.