TEfE WlLMINGTONIAN


AND


DELAWARE ADVERTISER,
Thursday, May IL, 1926.
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WILLIAM S. CARDELL.-As this gen.
tleman has lately excited considerable inter.


est among the iterati of our Borough. by his
new system Of Grammar, it may not bea-


miss to show in what estimation his labous
are held in New-York, where his merits
are best known. The following remarks are
from "the NewYork Literary Gazette and


American Athennum."


mr.. CardelPs System Of Language.-ln


telligent and thinking men are becoming


greatly Interested in the new system of ex


position In Language. 1t meets, of course


with opposition from some quarters, and it


would be strange If it did not. Every found.


er OF new system has to contend with the


opposition OF selt-interest, of mortified van


ty, and ofancient prejudice. But a system
founded on truth, consistent in all its parts
and unanswerable in its reasoning, will and
must prevail over the thousand arms of ri
vary and hostility. We carly expressed
cur decided conviction of the truth and cx-
ccllence of Mr.. C.'s system and it is with
no ordinary qualification that we have heard
the expression o. a similar opinion from
some OF the most distinguished and talent
ed men CT our State. Several of the most
eminent teachers in this city, who have for
wears been using the old system, have aban-
doned 1t in favour of the new, and state ex-
pressly, that they can nosv make their pu'
pills uAaer&taad grammar, and that the
work Is as practically useful as it is theoretl-
caly.


To our astonishment we have heard one
of the enemies of the new system object to
its style, and condemn it for inelegance--
Really there is no answering such an argH.
ment, unless we say that the man who uses
it is no judge of good zpritMg, and this We
do say unceremoniously. Ii we know any
thing about the matter, Mr.. C.'s STYLE is
chaste and energetic, and we arc
not solitary in this opinion. 1t is rather sin
gular that the style Of a new system should
be attacked in preference to its h,incihieS;
we should think the latter of more import
ance.


Among so many interested persons, is
there no one who is able, on principle, to
show the defects, or prove the falacy OF
Mr.. C.'ssystem? In writing SO much on q
plan so new, has he mistaken no important
lact In the train Of reasoning, to explain
and defend his theory, is his logic so close
mat no wrong deduction can be shown. Is
there no contradiction in the different parts
In defining words, before underlined, has he
not in some instances made mistake? New
York, probably more than any place, is the
strong hold of self-interest of various kinds,
N favour of the long standing theory Of nct
:er verb grammar, and, as a subject of inter,
,sting speculation, we should be glad to SEE.
what its champions may say in defence oi
doctrines so ably, and to all present appear
snce, SO irresistibly assaled.