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26 them to make use of the Y. M. C. A. clubhouse in the Avenue Montaigne, "where American is spoken." At about the same time an enterprising London tobacconist, Peters by name, affixed a large sign bearing the legend "American spoken here" to the front of his shop, and soon he was imitated by various other London, Liverpool and Paris shop-keepers. Earlier in the war the Illinoiser Staats-Zeitung, no doubt seeking to keep the sense of difference alive, advertised that it would "publish articles daily in the American language."

What English and American laymen have thus observed has not escaped the notice of Continental philologists. The first edition of Bartlett, published in 1848, brought forth a long and critical review in the Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literar turen by Prof. Felix Flügel, and in the successive volumes of the Archiv there have been many valuable essays upon Americanisms, by such men as Herrig, Köhler and Kartzke. Various Dutch philologists, among them Barentz, Keijzer and Van der Voort, have also discussed the subject, and a study in French has been published by G. A. Barranger. The literature in German is becoming very extensive, and there have been contributions to it of late by philologists of high standing, notably Prof. Dr. Heinrich Spies, of Greifswald, and Dr. Georg Kartzke, of Berlin. Dr. Spies delivered a course of lectures at Greifswald in February, 1921, which covered the whole field of current English, and especially the matter of its neologisms; he is an eager and very shrewd student of American speech-habits, as is Dr. Kartzke. Two other foreign scholars who show more interest in American English than is usually displayed at home are Prof. Wincenty Lutoslawski, of the University of Wilna in Poland, and Prof. Sanki Ichikawa, of the Imperial University at