It is a remarkable tissue of ill-laid premises and of forced illogical sequences.
22.

Of a similar character is a certain work, entitled, "English Grammar on the _Productive System_: a method of instruction recently adopted in Germany and Switzerland." It is a work which certainly will be "_productive_" of no good to any body but the author and his publishers.
The book is as destitute of taste, as of method; of authority, as of originality.

It commences with "the _inductive_ process," and after forty pages of such matter as is described above, becomes a "_productive_ system," by means of a misnamed "RECAPITULATION;" which jumbles together the etymology and the syntax of the language, through seventy-six pages more.

It is then made still more "_productive_" by the appropriation of a like space to a reprint of Murray's Syntax and Exercises, under the inappropriate title, "GENERAL OBSERVATIONS." To Prosody, including punctuation and the use of capitals, there are allotted six pages, at the end; and to Orthography, four lines, in the middle of the volume! (See p.
41.) It is but just, to regard the _title_ of this book, as being at once a libel and a lie; a libel upon the learning and good sense of Woodbridge;[60] and a practical lie, as conveying a false notion of the origin of what the volume contains.
23.

What there is in Germany or Switzerland, that bears _any resemblance_ to this misnamed system of English Grammar, remains to be shown.