GRANT AND GRAMMAR.
To the Editor of lh>; Emmy Mar. Sin- At Mr Macasse'y’s meeting, Mr J. G. S. Grant took exception to the grammar of a motion proposed by Mr Fish, and, no doubt, Mr Fish’s grammar was bad ; nor was I surprised to find that it did not escape the critical notice of an ex-Kector of the High School. Jiut, when 1 read in a letter signed iiy (p y. Grant,” and addressed to the editor of the Echo, such a passage as the following An election war-cry of public works, railways, fleets, and immigration, arc being raised to delude the unwary,” &c., I am forcibly reminded of the proverb as to people who live in glass-homes. I submit, Sir, that while there may bo some exense for a grammatical error occurring in a composition hastily written amid the turmoil of an electioneering meeting, no adequate apology oan be offered for an equally gross violation of the rules laid Mown by Lindley Murray, when met with® a letter deliberately penned with a view tWots being published in the columns of a public newsral)fr - t x 1 am, &e., Sims SvKiisu-: Mini, Fort Chalmers, Dec, 19.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2451, 23 December 1870, Page 3
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