Young, 113 Commencement of the Night Thoughts, Management of the Mind, J. Phillips, 114 Armstrong, 117 Dyer, 121 English Hexameters, (Homer's Iliad,) The Ship of Heaven, Prospect of Immortality (Pleas. of Hope) Campbell, Page Southey, 145 146 ERRATA. Anal. p. xxiii. line 3 from the bottom, for "ment," read meant. P. xl. for "symbōl," read symbōl. P. xliii. line 5. for "Ye" read Ye. P. xlvi. for "[sing-who?" read sing 1 who1 &c. P. xlix. for A. After “\täste,” add a bar |· sing-who?" 66 fruit " read fruit Selections, p. 20. 1. 6. for gifts read griefs. P. 23. l. last, for came r. comes. P. 31. 1. 3. for height r. highth. P. 53. 1. 19. for words r.worlds. A few literal errors of smaller consequence have also escaped the corrector of the press. Introductory Essay on the Study of English Rhythmus. THERE are few circumstances more hostile to the improvement of our national Elocution, or more conducive to that prevalency of impediment, which foreigners remark as one of the characteristics of our nation, than the general neglect of the study of Rhythmus; and, I might add, the worse than total ignorance of our grammarians and professed instructors, of the genuine principles upon which the rhythmus of Language depends. In the whole course of my reading, I have only inet with three writers (Joshua Steele, Odell and Roe) who have had any conception of the true nature and characteristics of a cadence, or English metrical foot, or have perceived the existence of any ascertainable measure or proportion in English speech; nor is it a harshness beyond what the interests of literature and science demand, to pronounce-that every thing I have met with upon the subject (excepting what has come from the pens of those writers) has not only been false in principle and theory, but eminently injurious to the reputation and utterance of our Language. Not even those writers, indeed, appear to have gone to the bottom of the subject. They have sought for their data in the rules of inventive and imitative art, instead of appealing to physical analysis, the primary principles of nature, and the physiological necessities resulting from the b |