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“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’ (Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages, New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and amusing.”
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“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which should interest every student of language. If there were more philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross
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“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument, are at times rich in illustration.”
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“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine