Of the various changes which have been made of late years in public
education, there is not one so generally admitted to be an improvement as
that which has made the study of
"The tongue
Which Shakspeare spake,"
an essential part of the system and probably no individual has so
effectually contributed towards this important end as Dr. Latham, the third
edition of whose masterly and philosophical volume, entitled _The English
Language_, is mow before us. Dr. Latham has ever earnestly and successfully
insisted on the _disciplinal_ character of grammatical studies in general,
combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is
exclusively so; and having established this theory, he has, by the
production of various elementary works, exhibiting a happy combination of
great philological acquirements with the ability to apply them in a logical
and systematic manner, enabled those who shared his views to put that
theory into practice. Hence the change in our educational system to which
we have alluded. His volume entitled _The English Language_ is, however,
addressed to a higher class of {367} readers, and this third edition may
justly be pronounced the most important contribution to the history of our
native tongue which has yet been produced; and, as such every student of
our early language and literature must, with us, bid it welcome.
We have received the following Catalogues;--Cole's (15. Great Turnstile,
Holborn) List No. XXIX. of curious Old Books; Kerslake's (3. Park Street,
Bristol) Valuable Books containing Selections from Libraries at Conishead
Priory; of Prof. Elrington; T. G. Ward, &c.
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