The high school course in English

by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

3. Language and Grammar

Sweet, H. New English Grammar; Vol. I., Phonology and Accidence. ($2.60). Vol. II. Syntax. ($.90). Oxford Univ. Press. The most complete logical and historical grammar.

Emerson, O. F. History of the English Language. Macmillan. ($1.25).

Greenough and Kittredge. Words and their Ways in English Speech. Macmillan. ($1.10). An interesting popular account of the origin and development of language and of changes in the meaning of words.

Trench, R. C. The Study of Words. Armstrong, N. Y. ($1.00). An excellent introduction to the study of the development of the meaning of words.