124 UR. MILLEU'S GKAMMAU. 



souio vory smooth Ilexanieters in English. Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia 

 lius some that evx'ii Montgomery (see his Lectures on Eng. Lit. p. 91,) 

 acknowledges to be " not amiss ;" thus, 



" Lady, reserved by the heavens, to do pastors' companie honour, 

 Joyning your svveete voice to the rurall Muse of a desart, 

 Here you fully do finde this strange operation of love, 

 How to the woods Love runnes, as well as rides to the palace ; 

 Neither he beares reverence to a prince, nor pity to a beggar. 

 But, like a point in the midst of a circle, is still of a nearnesse ; 

 All to a lesson he draws, neither hills nor caves can avoid him." 



We have seen some, and we have no doubt that Prof. Brooks cquld 

 make others, much smoother than these. The experience of the'Ger- 

 mans, whose language is as different from the Latin as ours, ought to 

 satisfy us that we can successfully imitate all the classic metres. Klop- 

 stock's Messias is in Hexameters that are not a whit harsher than those 

 of Horace in his Satires, nor does my ear tell me that his 



"Sing unsterbliche Muse, der siindlichen Menschen Erlosung" — 

 is any less musical than Virgil's 



" Arma virumque cano Trojae qui primus ab oris" — 



But not having the gift of " poesy divine," we refrain from pressing 

 this subject any further than simply to commend it to the favorable 

 consideration of Prof. Brooks. R. 



MILLER S ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

 The Danvim.e Grammar; being an attempt to render tlie study of Grammar 

 more effectual, more easy, and more satisfactorj', than by the usual metiiod. — 

 By George B. Miller, D. D. pp. 70. 



Every effort made to facilitate the prosecution of this important 

 branch of study, should be encoraged. If any system can be produ- 

 ced superior to those now in use, let a preference be given to it. The 

 want of success in teaching has arisen, not so much from the dryness 

 of the subject as from the abstractness or imperfection of text-books. 

 There are objections to every system now before the public. Various 

 improvements might be suggested to render the study less irksome and 

 more useful to pupils. The author of the volume, whose title-page has 

 been given, is an experienced and successful teacher, the last twenty 

 years of whose life have been devoted to the business: any thing coming 

 from the pen of such a one, is, therefore, certainly entitled to our con- 

 sideration, lie tells us in the introduction, that the book is, in a great 

 measure, the otlsprhig of necessity. Many years since, in endeavoring 



