It is a small treatise, and worthy of attention only as a matter of curiosity.

It is written in prose, and designed chiefly for the aid of foreigners.

Grammar is an unpoetical subject, and therefore not wisely treated, as it once very generally was, in verse.

But every poet should be familiar with the art, because the formal principles of his own have always been considered as embraced in it.

To its poets, too, every language must needs be particularly indebted; because their compositions, being in general more highly finished than works in prose, are supposed to present the language in its most agreeable form.