. . . ” Permit me here to make an observation, to which I will not give you the trouble to reply, because it is on a subject of which I myself am not the slightest judge—Grammar. I once thought that Grammar was a point established and immoveable by taste or custom. I have of late heard this contradicted, and have been shown precedents of the very best writers differing extremely in their modes of Grammar, and I am even told that correctness is often inelegant.
“If this be true, it is a fine thing for women, and for some men.
“But it seems that ‘Osah is prettier than I;’ has Godwin, Lowth, and Scripture on its side. Three high authorities.—Yours most truly,
