Our limits only permit us to give one more extract from Dr. Allen's and Mr. Cornwell's work. It ist aken from the section on the formation and derivation of words, a subject usually neglected in ordinary grammars, but which is treated by Dr. Allen and Mr. Cornwell at considerable length, and in a very satisfactory manner. They divide all derivative words into two classes, primary and secondary. Primary derivatives are made by an internal change, and hence are called strong derivatives; while secondary derivatives are made by an external addition, and hence are called weak derivatives. The former class of derivatives are generally passed over even in works professing to treat exclusively of etymology. Dr. Allen and Mr. Cornwall give the following arrangement of this class : (1.) Vowel modified. VERBS. Drop, Droop; Fall, Fell; Rise, Raise, Rouse; Sit, Set; Rest, Roost; Shrive, Shrove [an old word meaning to join in the festivities of Shrove-tide]; Chip, Chop; Din, Dun. (2.) Consonant modified. Stick, Stitch, (3.) Vowel and consonant modified. Wake, Watch; Drink, Drench; Cling, Clench; Wring, Wrench; Hook, Hitch. (4.) Strengthening letter prefixed. Mash, Smash; Lash, Slash; Plash, Splash; Wag, Swag; Dun, Stun Whirl, Twirl, Swirl. NOUNS. (1.) Vowel modified. [Vowel shortened.] Bite, Bit; Gāpe, Gap. [Vowels changed.] Drive, Drove; Strike, Stroke; Sing, Song; Deal, Dole; Lear-n, Lore; Sneak, Snake; Let, Lot; Bless, Bliss; Bleed, Blood; Feed, Food; Bear, Bier; Tell, Tale; Sell, Sale; Gild, Gold; Shine, Sheen; Deem, Doom; Click, Clock; Chop, Chap; Len(d), Loan; Sit, Seat; Tip, Top. (2.) Consonant modified. Dig, Ditch; Speak, Speech; Rise, Rise; Wreathe, Wreath; Strive, Strife; Behoove, Behoof; Gird, Girth; Lay, Law; Say, Saw. (3.) Vowel and consonant modified. Weave, Woof; Live, Life; Breathe, Breath; Break, Breach; Hold, Hilt; Lōse, Loss. (1.) Vowel modified. ADJECTIVES. Fill, Full; Shine, Sheen; Heal, Hale; Heat, Hot; Rud [an old word whence Ruddy], Red; String, Strung [i. e. strung up, nerved]; Wring, Wrung [i. e. wrung from the right course, not right, or straight, but a-wry]; Flit, Fleet. (2.) Consonant modified. Loathe, Loth. (3.) Vowel and consonant modified. Wis, Wise; (Wis appears in the Past Tense in the phrase he wist not); love, lief. Art. VIII. 1. An Account of the Proceedings of the present Board of Guardians of the Braintree Union, with Copies of the Poor Law Commissioners' Orders and Communications to the Board on the subject of the Appointment of a Chaplain to the Union House. Also, an Appendix, containing the Correspondence between the Board and the Clergymen and Dissenting Ministers residing in the Union. By an ELECTED GUARDIAN. 8vo. pp. 29. Braintree. 2. Annual Reports of the Poor Law Commissioners of England and Wales, with Appendices. 8vo. 1836-1840. [F Sir Robert Inglis, or any other zealous church-extensionist, had proposed, in the House of Commons, to create six or seven hundred additional curacies, the stipends attached to which should be chargeable upon the poor rate, such an augmentation of the Church Establishment of this country, at the expense of the community at large, would have appeared a flight of Tory extravagance which could not for a moment receive countenance from any Liberal administration. Yet, put the fact into other words, and this is neither more nor less than what has been quietly accomplished by the legerdemain of Whig legislation, in the power given to the Poor Law Commissioners to compel Boards of Guardians to appoint a chaplain to every union workhouse at the expense of the parishioners. When we say that this power was given to them by the Legislature, we mean that the Commission itself, with all the powers it involves, is the creature of a reformed parliament: and for the abuse of the power created, as well as for its existence, the present Administration is responsible. But, as to the specific power assumed by the Commissioners in this matter of chaplaincies to the workhouses, it does not appear to have been the intention |