And what similarity is there between his method of teaching and that of _Roswell C.Smith_, except their pretence to a common parentage, and that both are worthless?
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The success of Smith's Inductive and Productive Grammars, and the fame perhaps of a certain "Grammar in Familiar Lectures," produced in 1836 a rival work from the hands of a gentleman in New Hampshire, entitled, "An Analytical Grammar of the English Language, embracing the _Inductive and Productive Methods of Teaching_, with _Familiar Explanations in the Lecture Style_" &c.

This is a fair-looking duodecimo volume of three hundred pages, the character and pretensions of which, if they could be clearly stated, would throw further light upon the two fallacious schemes of teaching mentioned above.

For the writer says, "This grammar professes _to combine_ both the _Inductive_ and _Productive_ methods of imparting instruction, of which much has been said within a few years _past_"-- _Preface_, p.iv.

And again: "The inductive and productive methods of instruction contain the essence of modern improvements."-- _Gram._, p.139.In what these modern improvements consist, he does not inform us; but, it will be seen, that he himself claims the _copyright_ of _all_ the improvements which he allows to _English grammar_ since the appearance of Murray in 1795.