the mighty inventor can refrain from rushing out, in
native nudity, into the public way.

The discoverer of the science of languages, however, does not come
forth upon us, like Archimedes, in a state of dishabille. Attired in
the same fashionable garb, rejoicing in the same paper and type, and
issuing from the shelves of the same respectable publishers, Mr
Kavanagh's two goodly octavos may fitly range, as far as exterior is
concerned, with the collected productions of Jeffrey and Macaulay, who
will no doubt feel honoured by such good company. The fly-leaf at the
beginning of the work warns all pirates and poachers "that it is
private property, protected by the late Copyright Act;" and a foot-note
seems to inform us that a French edition is simultaneously to appear
in Paris. Who could doubt that such mighty notes of preparation were
to usher in some _magnum opus_, worthy of the expectations thus
excited?

Mr Kavanagh appears to us to have lived for some time in France, and
if so, he has not lived there in vain. He has acquired the knack of
framing a bill of fare, that would do honour to the reigning prince of
restaurateurs, whoever he may be, and would create an appetite under
the ribs of death. Take the following excerpts from the contents:--

"What the author should do before attempting to prove the
discovery of the science of languages. This he does, and a great
deal more."

"View of the human mind. That taken by eminent philosophers
inquired into, and found to be erroneous. The author's view of
it."

"Proof that there are no such words as substantives or nouns."

"Pronouns, supposed like nouns, but erroneously, to represent
substances. They never represent nouns, as they have been
supposed to do. Proof that they never stand for substances, nor
can be, any more than nouns, the subject of propositions. Their
real nature shown, and difficulties and locutions connected with
them accounted for. The original form of _oh me_! and _ah me_!"

"Thus far the author pretends to have shown that there is but one
part of speech."

"The author's account of the verb. Why it cannot be compared like
the adjective. The verb is an adjective or name in the fourth
degree. It does not represent an action. TO and DO. Shown how it
does not represent an action, and how grammarians have been led
to suppose that it does."

"How me