The work in its present state is divided into chapters: _Of Grammar and the Parts_; _Of Letters and their Powers_; _Of the Vowels_; _Of the Consonants_, and so forth. In the third chapter, under Y, the writer remarks:--"Y is mere vowelish in our tongue, and hath only the power of an _i_, even where it obtains the seat of a consonant, as in _young_, _younker_, which the Dutch, whose primitive it is, write _junk_, _junker_. And so might we write _iouth_, _ies_, _ioke_...." "C is a letter," he says, "which our forefathers might very well have spared in our tongue; but since it hath obtained place both in our writing and language, we are not now to quarrel with _orthography_ or _custom_." Nor is _c_ the only member of the alphabet with which Jonson considers that we might have advantageously dispensed; for in a subsequent page he declares that "_q_ is a letter we might very well have spared in our _alphabet_, if we would but use the serviceable _k_ as he should be, and restore him to the right of reputation he had with our forefathers. For the English Saxon knew not this halting _q_, with her waiting woman _u_ after her, but exprest _quail_,} {_kuail_, _quest_,} by {_kuest_, _quick_,} {_kuick_, _quill_,} {_kuill_." In other words, Jonson, discarding _c_ and _q_, was with those who nowadays ask us to say _Kikero_, _Kelt_, _Kæsar_; and he seems also to be an advocate for such terminations as _st_ or _pt_ for _ed_ in _exprest_, _confest_, _profest_, _stopt_, _dropt_, _cropt_, wherein he has a follower in Mr. Furnivall. His demonstration of the manner in which the several letters ought to be sounded as pronounced is occasionally very amusing. "T," he informs the reader, "is sounded with the tongue striking the upper teeth." "P breaketh softly through the lips." "N ringeth somewhat more in the lips and nose." But of H he remarks: "Whether it be a letter or no, hath been much examined by the ancients, and by some of the Greek party too much condemned, and thrown out of the alphabet." This last piece of criticism should have its consoling effect on those among the moderns who also repudiate it, and may not be aware that they have the Greek party in Jonson's day on their side, only that the Greek party did not offer the deposed letter any substituted position. Jonson's _Grammar_, as we have it, is a book for scholars and philologists, however, rather than for the elementary stage of education. The method is discursive and the style obscure; and it is chiefly prizable as an evidence of the versatility, the extensive reading, and the perseverance of the author. He quotes among his examples Sir Thomas More, Gower, Lidgate, Fox's _Martyrs_, Harding's _Chronicle_, Chaucer, and Sir John Cheke.