Show ENGLISH ga 1 1111 MAR fedelish grammar as taught in our schools is receiving the criticism of many prominent writers who bold hold to the conviction that the confusing con fusini mats maes of rules with endless exceptions of which oar our grammars are composed tends to obstruct fluency of speech spee chand and make diction 1 stinted the sacramento bebis bee is the latest paper to declare against the grammar of the pedant it says the eureka californian takes the bee to task for railing against the fossilized engi english lish grammar text textbooks books used in the schools bools nc in contempt of which the speech that will live baa has been written and yet the californian says in that very ar article tuyet cle in which it criticizes the bee in the final anal analysis it is not grammars after all that are authority in matters of speech but the language of the best writers and speakers webster and clay and calhoun Cal bonn and lincoln and blaine and cooper and hawthorne and rite and burke and scott and dickens and thackeray did not stray far from the fount of english undefiled un dented no but like titans ot of thou thought and gods in expression they brushed aside ida the measly little grammars that sought to cramp their wealth of language and burst forth in ill the boundless domain of our acred sacred and almost illimitable english tongue shakespeare and webster and dick dickens eds could no more be checked in the soaring grandeur of their speech by the miserable eunuchs of grammatical technicalities techi than could con I 1 d the resistless resi stleo march of the muir glacier be stopped by an earth levee we have seen little pedants take the klog jaaes james edition of the bible the very fountain head of the best the purest and most virile english and measure by their miserly rules some magnificent 1 phrase that the language then shake their head heads in sorrowful condemnation throw your set roles rules of english grammar into the fire tire of a tongue that is a in marvel aryel of ringing melody and pin bour faith on your shakespeare your king Jame sedition of the bible your essays 0 of f thomas babington macaulay your 1 letters etters of junius your crisis and I tights i of thomas paine your or orations ot edmund burke and daniel We webester bister and andall all the glorious builders ot of an english language that has touched the 1 stars tars with its glory and while ane firmy grammarians chirp and chatter far below yon you will be dwelling on the bights with the masters of english Unell sh |