r grammar or modes of expression, it becomes evident that
the most certain and shortest method of arriving at a thorough and
correct comprehension of English is by the study of its most important
element--one which, as a writer has well said, bears the same relation
to our mother-tongue as oxygen does to water. It is not fair to speak as
some do of the Latin and Saxon wings of the English bird--the bird
itself is Saxon--head and tail included. English has been but little
benefited by its Latin and Greek additions--the old tongue had excellent
synonyms or creative capacity like German--to fully equal every new need
of thought.

The reader who has time for study, would do well to obtain the
Anglo-Saxon Grammar of Louis Klipstein, published by G.P. Putnam,
New-York, which is by far the most practical and easiest work of the
kind with which we are acquainted. A few days' study in it will be time
well invested by any one desirous of really _understanding_ English.
When we reflect that many boys study Latin for years 'because it enables
them to understand the structure and derivation of their own language,'
while the extremely easy Anglo-Saxon is almost entirely neglected, we
smile at the ignorance of the first principles of education which
prevails. But we advise the reader who may have a few shillings and a
few hours to spare to invest them in a 'KLIPSTEIN,' and _know_--what
very few writers do--something of the roots of English. Our word for it,
he will not regret following the advice.

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We are indebted to a Dawfuskie Island correspondent for the following
details relative to

THE FALL OF PULASKI.

'Come and dine with me next Sunday in Pulaski?' said the commandant
of a detachment of the Volunteer Engineer corps located on Tybee
Island, one bright morning in the early part of April. As the
invitation was given in all sincerity, and the officer who thus
spoke was assisting in the erection of the batteries commanding
that fort, the question which had so long occupied my mind, as to
when the bombardment would begin, was now, I fondly hoped, near its
solution. Time and again had rumor fixed the period of that event;
but as often were we disappointed. Nor was _the_ day now fixed; at
least, if so, it was not communicated to me; but as the coming
Friday of that week would be the anniversary of the attack on Fort
Sumter, the