WE have received a copy of an article in the School Bulletin, in which Mr. J. H. Allen, so well known as a scholar, has taken the trouble to reply in detail to the criticisms which Mr. D. T. Reilley, said to be of Rutgers College, made on a little book of Mr. Allen's called the "Latin Primer," and designed to "teach little children the elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley's insinuations against Harvard, and also that, so eager had this gentleman been to detect a mote in Mr. Allen's eye, he had not discovered the beam in his own eye; as, for instance, when he attacks Mr. Allen for using constructions which are sanctioned by the usage of Ovid and Horace. Of course, we do not suppose that the majority of our readers are interested in this discussion, and we therefore do not intend to enter into it very fully, though we are always very glad when our professors find our columns useful in their discussions.
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