Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Stray notes on spelling and speaking. The things of which I have to treat are for the most part insulated and unconnected so that I fear there will not be even the appearance of connection between the various parts of my volume. And again, it must he confessed that they are not of a very interesting kind. I shall have to speak of such dull things as parts of speech, and numbers, and genders; the obscuration, or the conventional and licensed violation, of rules of grammar, and the pronunciation and spelling of words.’