Spellings in the Index are sometimes different from those used in the main text, as with the names “Shakespeare” and “Wycliffe”, or the use of ligatures in names such as “Bæda” and “Cædmon”. Page references are linked to the nearest paragraph.

PART III.

African words in English, [263].

American words in English,[263].

Analytic English (= modern),[239].

Ancient English, [199].

synthetic, [239].

Anglo-Saxon, specimen from,[250].

contrasted with English of Wyclif and Tyndale,[251].

Arabic words in English,[263].

Aryan family of languages,[195].

Bible, English of the,[256].

Bilingualism, [222].

Changes of language, never sudden,[198].

Chinese words in English,[264].

Dead and living languages,[198].

Dialects of English,[238].

Doublets, English and other,[236]-[238].

Greek, [233].

Latin, [230]-[233].

Dutch and Welsh contrasted,[197].

words in English, [260].

English, [194].

a Low-German tongue, [196].

diagram of, [203].

dialects of, [238].

early and oldest, compared,[252].

elements of, characteristics of the two,[234]-[236].

English element in, [202].

foreign elements in, [204].

grammar of, its history, [239]-[249].

its spread over Britain, [197].

modern, [258]-[265].

nation, [202].

of the Bible, [256].

of the thirteenth century, [254].

of the fourteenth century, [255].

of the sixteenth century, [256].

on the Continent, [194].

periods of, [198]-[201].

marks which distinguish, [254].

syntax of, changed, [245].

the family to which it belongs,[195].

the group to which it belongs, [195],[196].

vocabulary of, [202]-[238].

Foreign elements in English,[204].

French (new) words in English,[261].

(Norman), see Norman-French.

German words in English,[262].

Grammar of English,[239]-[249].

comparatively fixed (since 1485),[258].

First Period, [240].

general view of its history,[243].

Second Period, [241].

short view of its history,[239]-[243].

Third Period, [242].

Fourth Period, [242].

Greek doublets, [233].

Gutturals, expulsion of,[246]-[248].

Hebrew words in English,[262].

Hindu words in English, [264].

History of English, landmarks in,[266].

Hungarian words in English,[264].

Indo-European family,[195].

Inflexions in different periods, compared,[253].

loss of, [239],[240].

grammatical result of loss,[248].

Italian words in English,[259].

Keltic element in English,[204]-[206].

Landmarks in the history of English,[266].

Language, [193].

changes of, [198].

growth of, [193].

living and dead, [198].

spoken and written, [203].

written, [193].

Latin contributions and their dates,[209].

doublets, [230]-[233].

element in English, [208]-[233].

of the eye and ear, [230].

of the First Period, [210].

Second Period, [211],[212].

Third Period, [212]-[227].

Fourth Period, [227]-[230].

triplets, [233].

Lord’s Prayer, in four versions,[251], [252].

Malay words in English, [264].

Middle English, [200].

Modern English, [201],[258]-[265].

analytic, [239].

Monosyllables, [244].

New words in English, [258]-[265].

Norman-French, [212].

bilingualism caused by, [222].

contributions, general character of,[220].

dates of, [213]-[215].

element in English, [212]-[227].

gains to English from, [221]-[224].

losses to English from, [225]-[227].

synonyms, [222].

words, [216]-[220].

Oldest and early English compared,[252].

Order of words in English, changed,[245].

Periods of English, [198]-[201].

Ancient, [199].

Early, [199].

Middle, [200].

Tudor, [201].

Modern, [201].

grammar of the different, [239]-[249].

marks indicating different, [254].

specimens of different, [250]-[257].

Persian words in English,[264].

Polynesian words in English,[264].

Portuguese words in English,[264].

Renascence (Revival of Learning),[227].

Russian words in English,[264].

Scandinavian element in English,[206]-[208].

Scientific terms in English,[265].

Spanish words in English,[259].

Specimens of English of different periods,[250]-[257].

Spoken and written language,[203].

Syntax of English, change in,[245].

Synthetic English (= ancient),[239].

Tartar words in English, [264].

Teutonic group, [195].

Tudor English, [201].

Turkish words in English,[264].

Tyndale’s English, compared with Anglo-Saxon and Wyclif,[251].

Vocabulary of the English language,[202]-[238].

Welsh and Dutch contrasted,[197].

Words and inflexions in different periods, compared,[253].

new, in English, [258]-[265].

Written language, [193].

and spoken, [203].

Wyclif’s English, compared with Tyndale’s and Anglo-Saxon,[251].

PART IV.

Addison, Joseph, [315].

Alfred, [276].

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,[276].

Arnold, Matthew, [359].

Austen, Jane, [348].

Bacon, Francis, [299].

Bæda (Venerable Bede),[275].

Barbour, John, [285].

Beowulf, [273].

Blake, William, [334].

Browning, Robert, [358].

Browning, Mrs., [357].

Brunanburg, Song of,[275].

Brunne, Robert of,[279].

Brut, [277].

Bunyan, John, [309].

Burke, Edmund, [326].

Burns, Robert, [332].

Butler, Samuel, [304].

Byron, George Gordon, Lord,[343].

Cædmon, [274].

Campbell, Thomas,[342].

Carlyle, Thomas,[349].

Caxton, William, [288].

Chatterton, Thomas,[333].

Chaucer, Geoffrey, [283].

followers of, [287].

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,[340].

Collins, William,[321].

Cowper, William,[329].

Crabbe, George, [331].

Defoe, Daniel, [312].

De Quincey, Thomas,[348].

Dickens, Charles,[361].

Dryden, John, [305].

Eliot, George, [364].

Gibbon, Edward, [327].

Gloucester, Robert of,[279].

Goldsmith, Oliver,[325].

Gower, John, [282].

Gray, Thomas, [320].

Hobbes, Thomas, [308].

Hooker, Richard, [296].

James I. (of Scotland),[287].

Johnson, Samuel, [323].

Jonson, Ben, [295].

Keats, John, [345].

Lamb, Charles, [346].

Landor, Walter Savage,[347].

Langlande, William,[282].

Layamon, [277].

Locke, John, [309].

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,[354].

Macaulay, Thomas Babington,[351].

Maldon, Song of the Fight at,[275].

Mandeville, Sir John,[281].

Marlowe, Christopher,[295].

Milton, John, [303].

Moore, Thomas, [342].

More, Sir Thomas, [290].

Morris, William, [360].

Orm’s Ormulum,[278].

Pope, Alexander, [317],[319].

Raleigh, Sir Walter, [298].

Ruskin, John, [363].

Scott, Sir Walter, [339].

Shakespeare, William, [292],[301].

contemporaries of, [294].

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,[344].

Sidney, Sir Philip,[297].

Southey, Robert,[341].

Spenser, Edmund, [291].

Steele, Richard, [316].

Surrey, Earl of, [289].

Swift, Jonathan, [313].

Taylor, Jeremy, [307].

Tennyson, Alfred, [355].

Thackeray, William Makepeace,[361].

Thomson, James, [319],[320].

Tyndale, William, [290].

Wordsworth, William,[337].

Wyatt, Sir Thomas,[289].

Wyclif, John, [282].

English Literature.

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry. By Hiram Corson, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the Cornell University. 5¼ by 7½ inches. × + 338 pages. Cloth. Price by mail, $1.50; Introduction price, $1.40.

The purpose of this volume is to afford some aid and guidance to the study of Robert Browning’s Poetry, which being the most complexly subjective of all English poetry, is, for that reason alone, the most difficult. And then the poet’s favorite art form, the dramatic, or rather psychologic, monologue, which is quite original with himself, and peculiarly adapted to the constitution of his genius, and to the revelation of themselves by the several “dramatis personæ,” presents certain structural difficulties, but difficulties which, with an increased familiarity, grew less and less. The exposition presented in the Introduction, of its constitution and skilful management, and the Arguments given to the several poems included in the volume, will, it is hoped, reduce, if not altogether remove, the difficulties of this kind. In the same section of the Introduction certain peculiarities of the poet’s diction, which sometimes give a check to the reader’s understanding of a passage, are presented and illustrated.