More than two hundred pretenders to such improvements, appear however within the time; nor is the grammarian of Holdgate the least positive of the claimants.

This new purveyor for the public taste, dislikes the catering of his predecessor, who poached in the fields of Murray; and, with a tacit censure upon _his productions_, has _honestly bought_ the rareties which he has served up.

In this he has the advantage.

He is a better writer too than some who make grammars; though no adept at composition, and a total stranger to method.

To call his work a "_system_" is a palpable misnomer; to tell what it is, an impossibility.