The Garden of Language is an ingenious attempt to impress
upon the memory of the little learner the elementary rules of grammar—for only the parterre of Etymology, to adopt the meta- phor of the title, is entered upon—by enlisting the fancy through the medium of verse, and of illustrative cuts. Mr. Speakwell is the grammatical gardener; • and a most explicit and lively inter- preter he paves to be. His little pupil, Emily Teachable, has also the merit of asking pertinent questions in proper order. The illustrations of the different parts of speech are all of a fami- liar kind, and mostly rural and floral; and if the form of verse be objected to on account of the often inverted phrase, the rhythm and rhyme are advantages to set off against it. These, with the addi- tion of the embellishments, are calculated to attract the atten- tion, where the dry and dull pages of an ordinary child's; grammar would only repel. Indeed, the little book is altogether most elegantly got up.
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