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to consider a drudgery. The old objec­tion of idiom is thrown in their way as a difficulty not to be encountered with suc­cess, while in reality, if we begin a lan­guage verbatim, comparing each single word of our own with that which we are learning, the difference of idiom, must strike us, and we become masters of it imperceptibly and as it were involuntarily­It is on this system that the present work is laid before the public, a system which the author has found to prevail very generally among the men of genius and learning throughout the continent, by some of whom he had the good fortune to be instruoted. Had a work of a similar nature existed amongst us, previously to the compilation of this, it is the author's humble, but sin“ cere opinion, that many a language here­tofore andeservedly neglected, would have held its place without d struggle among the branches of useful and elegant litera­ture; hut, unfortunately for the education of men, the attainment of language is