Author of “Origin and Evolution of Human Speech and Reason.”
Translated from the Second German Edition by David Asher, Ph.D., Corresponding Member of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages and Literature.
“The papers translated in this volume deal with various aspects of a very fascinating study. Herr Geiger had secured a place in the foremost ranks of German philologers, but he seems to have valued his philological researches chiefly as a means of throwing light on the early condition of mankind. He prosecuted his inquiries in a thoroughly philosophical spirit, and he never offered a theory, however paradoxical it might seem at first sight, for which he did not advance solid arguments. Unlike the majority of German scholars, he took pleasure in working out his doctrines in a manner that was likely to make them interesting to the general public; and his capacity for clear and attractive exposition was hardly inferior to that of Mr. Max Müller himself.”—St. James’s Gazette.
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DR. APPLETON: His Life and Literary Relics.
By JOHN H. APPLETON. M.A., Late Vicar of St. Mark’s, Staplefield, Sussex;
AND
A. H. SAYCE, M. A., Fellow of Queen’s College, and Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford.
“Although the life of Dr. Appleton was uneventful, it is valuable as illustrating the manner in which the speculative and the practical can be combined. His biographers talk of his geniality, his tolerance, his kindliness; and these characteristics, combined with his fine intellectual gifts, his searching analysis, his independence, his ceaseless energy and ardour, render his life specially interesting.”—Noncomformist.
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