30 JANUARY 1864, Page 20

The Queen's English. By Henry Alford, D.D. (Strahan and Co.)—

As journalists, we shall not be deterred by the severity of the censures of the Dean of Canterbury on the style of newspaper writers from frankly admitting that this is one of the most amusing and agreeable little books we have ever read. The faults which it rebukes have very often become so habitual that the wretched perpetrator has no chance of being roused to a sense of his wickedness by any but a voice from without. Still, however, we must protest against the attempt to legalize such grammar as "It's me" and "That's him." But even purists in grammar like the Dean have their pet weaknesses.