Prepositions; 8.

Pronouns; 9.

Conjunctions; 10.
Interjections and Nouns; 11.

Moods and Tenses; 12.

Irregular Verbs; 13.
Auxiliary, Passive, and Defective Verbs; 14.Derivation.Which, now, is "more judicious," such confusion as this, or the arrangement which has been common from time immemorial?
Who that has any respect for the human intellect, or whose powers of mind deserve any in return, will avouch this jumble to be "the order of the understanding ?" Are the methods of science to be accounted mere hinderances to instruction?
Has grammar really been made easy by this confounding of its parts?
Or are we lured by the name, "_Familiar Lectures_,"-- a term manifestly adopted as a mere decoy, and, with respect to the work itself, totally inappropriate?
If these chapters have ever been actually delivered as a series of lectures, the reader must have been employed on some occasions eight or ten times as long as on others! "People," says Dr.Johnson, "have now-a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by _lectures_.