The principal reason for adding another Grammar to the many already in print, is the fact that another is needed. In no branch of Common School study does the labor expended appear to produce so little in the way of results. It has even been discussed in State Teachers' Associations, whether the study of Gram mar is productive of any good. And, since the facts pertaining to language are certainly worth knowing, the fair conclusion is, that the facts can be presented in some form better suited to the necessities of teachers and pupils than any which has yet been tried. This volume presents a method of teaching Grammar which has been carefully tested in the school-room. The book contains a selection of the facts pertaining to lan guage. In teaching for many years, one learns that certain facts are to be retained firmly, certain others to be read, or used as illustrations, and others used as han dles bv which to grasp and hold other facts. Gramma rians attempting to make their school grammars complete treatises upon the study of language, have put so much in them that they have bewildered and disgusted the pupil. A grammar should be judged by what it leaves out as much as by what it contains.