PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE with special reference to English. By Otto Jespersen, Ph.D., Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen. 7s. 6d.

SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“It appeals not only to specialists, but to all who concern themselves with that most fascinating of modern questions, the origin and development of speech. The opening chapter shows us the independent thinker and original investigator. Throughout, the destructive criticism is clear, incisive, and cogent. It cannot fail to affect in time even the manual-mongers and the examiners who expect the innocent school to reproduce the fictions of the cram-books. A philologist, who sees with his own eyes and sees straight, is a rare combination.”—Journal of Education.

“Mr. Jespersen, who is still young, has long ago gained a high reputation as a phonetician. The introductory essay prefixed to the tracts before us will, we believe, secure for him a distinguished position among philological thinkers. It is long since we read so brilliant a performance of its kind.”—Academy.

“Our readers will find the book as instructive as it is far removed from the dryness characteristic of most philological treatises. It furnishes material for deep thought and may almost be called a new starting-point in philology.”—Asiatic Quarterly Review.

“The book is historical in its method, and attempts to show, by an examination of the typical characteristics of languages in all stages of development, what the general drift of language has been.”—Guardian.

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