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EVERY ono apprecia.tes the vnJue of a rectify use of language, nnd
yet the footing of grammar-the only- study in our schools that aims
to instruct this-is very insecure. Children nre not enthusiastic in
praise of grammar, most parents recall without pleasure their own
trials with it, and galore men of cultlUo and of wisuom in an open way advise
its banishment from the school-room.
But two causes may be asRigncd for this wide-spread aversion to
grammar. There must prevail a faith oither that there is another
and n botter way to OOITect expression than that along which grammnr
conducts one, or that the difficultnesses in this, the only path to it,
nre so severe that few ever surmount them and rellch the desired
goal.
There is, we believe, no other 8Jld better way to rectify writing and
spenJdng; turning a child loose into the fields of creative writing of recognized artisti value will not,
we are sure, put his feet upon such a road. De Quincey says that
through a circuit of prodigious reading he has met with only two or

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