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Excerpt from The Rise of English Literary Prose This book covers the period of discovery in the history of English literary prose. It begins with the latter half of the fourteenth century, when the writing of prose first assumed importance in the life of the English people, and it ends with the first quarter of the seventeenth century, when practice and experiment had made of English prose, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, a highly devel...

Excerpt from The Authority of Law in Language, Vol. 4It is interesting to observe how the comparatively old science of philology has in this respect attained a solid footing, whereas the relatively new science of sociology is still ¿oundering in the mire of the antiquated theory of the objective existence of or counterpart to mental or psychological activities. In a recent sum mary of the present state of sociological inquiry Professor Gid din...

Excerpt from Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use This book is not designed to do away with the necessity for using the dictionaries, grammars, and detailed histories of the English language, but to prepare the way for the more profitable and intelligent use of these books. The grammars and the dictionaries are the mines in which the crude materials, the natural resources, of the language are stored, the principles of development appear...

Excerpt from In Oldest England To-day all we know about the men and women who lived in oldest England we learn from the manuscripts which their scribes wrote. From these writings we know many facts of their time and many things about their manner of living. But we need more than facts, we need imagination to realize fully how people lived a thousand or more years ago. The men and women who dwelt in oldest England were the ancestors of the Eng...

Excerpt from Andreas and the Fates of the Apost: Two Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poems Although editions of the text of Andreas have been made from time to time, no comprehensive treatment of the poem on its various sides of Interest has appeared since Grimm published his Andreas und Elene in 1840. In the meantime our knowledge of the language and the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period has not remained stationary, and a new endeavor to present th...

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