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Addressing the grown-up grammarians as "Gentlemen," Collier lord knows how many consonants; I say, there remarked, "You say, there are five vowels and the are the lord knows how many vowels, and but few consonants." This he explained by defining as a consonant 66 P. Hayes-Malbrough' The Cambrian Shakspeare any letter "formed by one motion only, but a Carving at St. Stephen's-Potato-bury-Iron Virgin of Vowel by more," which distinction in his opinion Nuremberg, 311-Hogarth-Hell Fire Club-Horn-books-is the only thing that points out the difference Mary, Queen of Scots-"To bone"-The "New London between a vowel and a consonant." The letter A Tavern-Col. Morris-John Albright-Fleed-Drowning Man's Vision, 312-Lord Mayors of London-Capt. Leake he regarded as a vowel, and B as a consonant. C The Two Noble Kinsmen-Welsh Triads-St. Wilfred's "is a letter so variously used as to make it either Needle, 313-Fire by Rubbing Sticks-Body of Bishop Braybrooke-Dr. Todd-Alice Fitz Alan-Cambuskenneth, vowel or consonant; before E, I, and Y only it is 314-Innsbruck-Hofkirche-" Double entendre"-Bodkin, a vowel and an S, before all the rest it is a con315-"Dutch Nightingales "-Blodium-Bishop PatrickScotch Militia Regiments-Episcopal Jubilees-Elmessonant and a K." Like some later writers on Sir Denner Strutt-Irish Silver, 316-Cats Poisonous phonetics, Mr. Collier was troubled by C and K Sneezing-James Sayers-Knights-Heraldic, 317-Swans- having on many occasions the same sound. "I NOTES ON BOOKS:- Dictionary of National Biography,' wish," he said, "either it [C] or K fairly kicked Vol. XXXII.-Jacobs's Indian Fairy Tales-Gatfield's out of the alphabet, for one I think certainly use'Guide to Heraldic and Genealogical Books'—' Missing less." 66 ," he remarked, However," Friends'-Beljame's Enoch Arden.' as up-grown men cannot be weaned from error all at once, I must pronounce it [C] to be on an average a consonant." D, being formed by a simple motion only, is a consonant. E "is only a lesser opening of the mouth than A, but without its second One of the most eccentric of men, one whose eccen- motion or breath. In this state it can be no more tricity ended in actual madness, was John Collier, than a consonant." He finally pronounced it a author of An Alphabet for the Grown-up Gram-"mongrel, or rather-a mere consonant," because marians of Great Britain.' He was the eldest son of John Collier, schoolmaster, known as "Tim Bobbin," and now remembered as the earliest of the writers F is formed by a gentle close of the lips, the in the Lancashire dialect. John Collier, the younger, upper one hanging a little over, and pushing the was born at Milnrow, Rochdale, in February, 1745, breath briskly through to open them. These two and became a coach-painter. He settled in New-motions form a distinct soft sound and constitute castle-upon-Tyne, married a woman of some little it a vowel to all intents and purposes.' The letter fortune, and became a prosperous tradesman. With G, when it has a soft sound, becomes, according to coach-painting he combined coach-building, portrait-painting, and the manufacture of "old masters." His business having extended, Collier decided to enlarge his premises, and the consequent building operations were the immediate cause of his later misfortunes. Collier's new building encroached to a slight extent on a neighbour's land. This led to a lengthy litigation, one result of which was that Collier's mind became unbalanced. He became violent, cruelly ill-treated his second wife, a mere girl, and threatened the life of Mr. Slack, who had printed one or two pamphlets for him in connexion with his legal affairs. He became so dangerous that he had to be placed in a lunatic asylum. It was about this period that he wrote before one of his vowels it is a consonant, and before and after one of his consonants it is a vowel. Mr. Collier's theory, a vowel, and when it has a hard sound it is " certainly near a consonant." He decided to class it amongst the mongrels, because it is "sounded three times hard for once soft." H is the only letter, according to our author, that the ordinary grammarians have accurately described "as being only a short breath forced by the throat through an open mouth; and therefore justly termed an aspirate." Before a vowel, according to the supposed lunatic, "it is a total mute," and is a "useless corrupter of our alphabet and language." He points out that it is usually wrongly placed, "as in honor, which must be pronounced ohnor, as if after the vowel, whether you will or not-in hah! or rather quick ah! it expresses |