A PROGRESSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE: BASED ON THE RESULTS OF MODERN PHILOLOGY. BY PROF. WILLIAM SWINTON, A.M., PROGRESSIVE ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 208 pp., 75 cents. 74335 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. THE present work on English Grammar forins a part of Harper's Language-Series. While it is the most advanced book of that series, it at the same time furnishes by itself a complete grammatical course for ungraded and for private schools. Learning our mother tongue ought to be the most interesting of school studies; and yet, for nearly a century, countless numbers of technical grammars, all modeled after Lindley Murray, have been, by turns, the object of aversion to successive generations of school children. This is not to be wondered at. The traditional rules of syntax, and the time-honored nomenclature of etymology, have come down to us a heritage from the elder grammarians, who, writing before philology became a science, put forth all their strength in a too successful endeavor to subject our simple and peculiar English speech to the vassalage of Latin forms. The introduction, some thirty years ago, of the method |