PRESIDENT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON, Author of "Historical Outlines of English Accidence," etc. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.] PREFACE. THE present treatise has been drawn up at the urgent request of numerous teachers, who asked for an easier and more elementary work than my "Historical Outlines of English Accidence," published some two years ago. I have endeavoured to the best of my ability to produce a short historical grammar that might be advantageously used as an introduction to my larger book. I have not, however, made a new book by cutting down and compressing the old one. These "Elementary Lessons" constitute an entirely indepen |
