be considered, here is a candidate which ought not to
be neglected.
We do not mean that it should be adopted en bloc, bat that it affords a very substantial foundation for a future work, containing as it does some very decided improvements on its predecessors. The pre- liminary explanations will, we fancy, be found easier for beginners than those of the manuals commonly in use, there are some improve- ments in the accidence, and greater clearness in some of the exposi.
tion of syntax. Teachers should be thankful to a grammarian who insists on the difference between the perfect and preterite, con-
founded though they are in the one Latin form and, in another pro- vince, who makes the difficulties of oratio obligee a little less. It would not be difficult to point out omissions, and even mistakes ; bat the grammar, as a whole, is a step in advance.
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