Again, our critic says: 'Upon _his own rules_ he comments thus:' 'But _some_ of these rules are foolish,' etc. Now this assertion is utterly UNTRUE; and, if Goold Brown read the whole passage from which he quotes, as he ought to have done, he KNEW he was asserting what was false. The rules in question, are introduced into the notes of my Elocution as JOHN WALKER'S, and NOT as my own; as any one may see, by referring to that work. Similar remarks are applicable to 'Rules 10 and 11,' in my Grammar, both of which are taken from Murray; and this, too, Goold Brown as well knew, when he brought this charge of inconsistency against me, as he knew that in making it, he was LIBELLING me. Really, when a critic is driven to such crooked shifts as these to make out his case, it needs no farther evidence to prove that it is a bad one. But the foulest calumny in this tirade of abuses and misrepresentations, is contained in the following passage, in which, after having dealt out the most illiberal strictures, and the most unsparing condemnations and denunciations, upon my Grammar, he pretends to _support_ his calumnies, by showing me up as a perfect ignoramus in the science of grammar: 'In general,' says he, 'his amendments of 'that eminent philologist,' (Mr. Murray,) are not more skilful than the following touch upon an eminent dramatist; and here, it is plain, he has mistaken two nouns for adjectives, and converted into bad English a beautiful passage, the sentiment of which is worthy of an _author_'s recollection: 'The evil deed or deeds that men do, _lives_ after them: The good deed or deeds _is_ oft interred with their bones.' _Kirkham's Grammar_, p. 75.' In my Grammar, the phrase 'deed or deeds' is included in a bracket, and therefore, as every one acquainted with Cobb's Spelling-Book well knows, is not intended to be read as a part of the sentence, but as an explanatory clause. The couplet stands thus, in my book: 'The evil [deed or deeds] that men do, lives after them; The evil [deed or deeds] is oft interred with their bones.'