The _history_ of grammar, in the proper sense of the term, has heretofore been made no part of the study.

I have imagined that many of its details might be profitable, not only to teachers, but to that class of learners for whose use this work is designed.

Accordingly, in the preceding pages, there have been stated numerous facts properly historical, relating either to particular grammars, or to the changes and progress of this branch of instruction.

These various details it is hoped will be more entertaining, and perhaps for that reason not less useful, than those explanations which belong merely to the construction and resolution of sentences.

The attentive reader must have gathered from the foregoing chapters some idea of what the science owes to many individuals whose names are connected with it.