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tory treatment of English constructions. It often happens that while pupils are in class a matter is introduced and discussed for which they are not ready; they think they have grasped it when in fact it has made but little impression. After they are thrown on their own resources, the matter perchance comes up again, demanding not merely a vague attention but a clear solu- tion; and then first do they recognize the actual difficulty that was before them. The explanation given prematurely remains only as a blurred remembrance. This is my ex- cuse for going over ground again that every teacher has already traversed, both under a master and as a master; with a view to greater agreement as to what claims notice by the way.

I am sometimes asked, ‘‘Do you ever have any hesitation in assigning a word or phrase to the subject as contrasted with the predicate of a sentence? Might not a cer- tain expression be viewed equally well as an integral part of either?” Such a ques- tion calls for a brief discussion of what a sentence is.

There is no satisfactory definition of a sentence. No grammarian has so worded his definition as to make it apply to other moods than the indicative. A sentence is, or suggests, a thought, whether in the form of a statement, wish, question, command, or even conception; and the characteristic of it is that in it two elements are as_ it were in organic union. cate are terms that have a mutual refer- ence; noun and verb have not. The pres- ence side by side of noun and verb does not make a sentence any more than the near- ness of a horse to a wagon would constitute a ‘‘team.” In the sentence, the noun is yoked to the verb, and the verb to the noun; it is thus that they become subject and predicate. To analyze a sen- tence is, as it were, to detach in thought the harnessed horse from the mounted wagon. Of course some sentences are so simple that they can be characterized at-once; the noun with its attributes, whether restrictive or appositive, forming a distinct subject ; the verb with its object or adjuncts forming a distinct predicate. But sometimes a simple sentence is enlarged by the addition of a conditioning phrase which seems to belong equally to subject and predicate. Espe- cially is this true in elliptical sentences. For instance take the sentence, ** I do not know if they have done it.” Here the in-

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done it,1 do not know it.” ‘‘I do not know that they have.” Here the order alone de- cides the best statement of the analysis. Again, take the sentence, ‘‘It says little for a government when the people are kept from revolt by the use of terror.’@ Here the involved clause serves a double purpose. In form it is an adverbial clause of occasion or circumstances ; it also involves the an- tecedent of the preparatory subject ‘‘it.” The full sentence again is, ‘‘ When such is the case, that it is the case says little for a government.” Such instances of contrac- tion are not always elegant ; one feels them ‘grammatically unsatisfactory; but then language follows the general tendency to

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the noun. asleep, etc. 3. ‘And now once more, in part trans- Jigured through the open door appears the |self-same scene.” The word is underlined ‘for parsing. | Transtigured is the perfect participle pas- |Sive, qualitying ‘scene,’ from the regular transitive verb ‘transiigure.’

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Its companion-words are afloat,

“The Habit of Public Speaking.”

A correspondent at Malpeque writes: ‘The ‘good people of Malpeque were lately treated to an admirable discourse upon the above sub- i ject by that prominent politician and lawyer, iJ. H. Bell, Esq., of Summerside. It is not jtoomuch tosay thatin point of delivery, Brockton} instruction, judicious and pleasing use of pathos, humor and description, the lec- ture was throughout a grand success, and it is to be regretted that the state of the roads, the short time for advertising, and the busy sea- '30n of the year, prevented the attendance of as large an audience as might have been ex- jpected, However, those who had the good ifortune to be presens were highly delighted |with the literary fare, and many, no doubt, went away feeling for the first time that they jhadin them the stuff of which orators are imade, The lecture was delivered under the | auspices of the Mock Parliament—a society ;which, ever since its organization, has had j almost unparalleled success, and which will | hereafter, no doubt, owing to the encouraging, practical assistance derived from Mr. Bell's

splendid discourse, rise to even greater heights of prosperity. Although being

ee . {obliged to trust entirely to my memory, I Subject. and predi-| should like to give here a short synopsis of the

lecture, but I fear to tamper with its symme- try, and will simply recommend Mr. Bell's lecture on the ‘* Habit of Public Speaking ” to any society or individal that may stand in the same need of practical assistance as did the Mock Parliament of Malpeque.”

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Restricting the Liquor Traffic.

Throughout Canada and the United States the drift of public opinion and the tendency of legislation are in the direction of imposing restrictions on the liquor selling business. In St. Louis a liquor license now costs $1,500, and in Omaha it costs $1,000. These are high figures ; and, as statistics show, they have re- sulted in a salutary decrease in the number of I:quor-selling places. In the former city there is now one sulvon to every 302 of the popula- tion, and in the latter one to every 484. That the proportion of saloons is comparetively small would appear to be the fact... fpenkes erenceapance that M°Yor every 150 people. The New York Legislature is apparently satis- fied with the high license experiment else- where, for that body now proposes to increase the license fee in New York city and in Brook- lyn from the nominal $75 to $1,000. In other States which have not adopted or attempted to adopt the principle of prohibition, high license fees are also proposed.

Ou this side of the line Eastern Canada has passed so far the most stringent liquor legisla- tion. Prince Kdward Island has, as is well known, prohibited the sale of liquors alto- gether, the various counties having with one accord adopted the Scott Act. Nova Scotia has just carried into operation a more strin- gent licensing law than any on a_ Provincial statute book. Saloons have been abolished ; and bars are no more. Shops are licensed to sell not less than a pint, but this must not be consumed on the premises. Hotels are allowed to sell for their boarders at their meals, or to

the smallest expenditure of force or breath. So careful and critical a writer as Freeman admits such constructions.

It is manifest that since subject and pre- dicate are thus interlaced, the same effect may be produced by inserting a condition- ing phrase in either the subject or ,predi- cate. In English we say, ‘I will do it gladly.” In Latin they say, ‘‘l will do it glad.” The statement, ‘I will do it” is conditionee by the idea of gladness. Now if the agent is glad, his temper will appear in his act; likewise, from the spirit of the act we can infer the temper of the actor. As though the full thought were ‘‘Being glad, I will do it gladly,” and we took the liberty of omitting the idea is one of the two places.

There is a tendency operating among grammarians now, to assign phrases more according to the meaning and less accord- ing to the form. For instance take the sentence, ‘‘ Men if persistently idle deserve to suffer.” Here the added phrase conditions the subject, or is a necessary part of the subject. Why not call it an attributive phrase involving a condition / Probably the full sentence is: ‘If certain men are persistently idle, these men— those who are idle—deserve to suffer.” If I write ‘‘Meu who are persistently idle deserve to sufter,” I have more plainly an adjective clause ; but the idea of condition is still lurking there, and would put the verb in Latin or Greek in the subjunctive mood.

To conclude these examples: ‘‘l will trust him though all others should think me mad.” Here we have a clause telling the circumstances of my statement ; it is plainly an adverbial clause, containing an admission or concession. Butif I say, “‘I will trust him, though believed by all to be dishonest,” there is not the same necessity for calling the concessive phrase adverbial ; it is rather attributive to “him :” and this would come out more clearly if our langu- age were inflected, so as to show the agree- ment in case between “him” and ‘*believed.”

I have been asked these questions :—

1. Have intransitive verbs any voice /

They certainly have an active voice ; at least they come under the only definition possible for the active voice, viz : **When the doer of an act is also the subject of a sentence, the verb is said to be in the active voice.”

2. Parse ‘‘alone,” in the sentence ‘‘and I alone remain.”

Alone, a restrictive or definitive adjec- tive, qualifying ‘*I.”

In parsing, it is my practice to ask fora statement of what is peculiar either in the general or special use of the word in ques-

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send liquor to their rooms ; but they must not sell over a counter. Atthe same time, the license fee has been trebled. The law has put 120 liquor sellers out of the business in Heali- fax alone, and in the few days that it has been in operation it has practically overwhelmed the regular barroom loafers with sobriety.

The New Brunswick Legislature is now considering a restrictive bill, introducing 4 system somewhate severe, but not half so ad- vanced as that of Nova Scotia. The saloons under the New Brunswick law will remain, but saloon keepers will be prohibited under heavy penalties from selling to minors or to persons who are intoxicated. The most im- portant feature of the New Brunswick bill is the provision that no license shall issue in a city unless two-thirds of the ratepayers of the ward in which the projected tavern is to be located petition for it. An equally interest- ing point in the bill is that touching the Scott Act. It requires the mvnicipalities to ap- point and pay preventive officers, and names a fine which is to be imposed upon such offli- cers who fail to do their duty. The salaries are to be $500 a year, and the fine for neglect is to be $50 per case.

The movement in favor of restriction has reached as far west as Moutreal. There is in that highly favored city a drinking shep for every hundred and fifty of the population, or for every thirty heads of families, This is a very sumptuous provision; so liberal, indeed, that it is not at all a matter for surprise that Protestant and Roman Catholic temperance men should unite in their efforts with a view to lopping off some of the superiluous bars. The Catholic Association has prepared a peti- tion to the Legislature, pointing out the curious fact that the license laws of Quebec give every municipality, except Montreal and Quebec city, the right to limit the number of licenses. Why these exeptions should have been made itis difficult to understand. But, anyway, the Catholic Association wants them to be removed. and suggests that as a second step in the right direction the number of licenses in Montreal be reduced one-half. It will be observed with gratification that the law is gradually making the dispensation of alcohol a difficult business. —£z.

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