Excerpts from Grammars No. 1: Charles Peter Mason 1879
Author Charles Peter Mason explains in a single sentence how he is “pushing condensation of expression and economy of space to their utmost limits” in the preface to his fourth edition of A Shorter English Grammar with Copious and Carefully Graduated Exercises (Toronto & Winnipeg: Gage and Company, c. 1879). This Shorter Grammar has been published in…