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Rh This work has been in preparation for some years, and part of it has ''been used as a class-book by the Editor. It is intended as an aid to the'' Critical study of English Literature, and contains one or more of the larger poems, each complete, of prominent English authors, from Spenser to Shelley, including Burns' “Cotter's Saturday Night” and “Twa Dogs.” In all cases the original spelling and the text of the best editions have been given: only in one or two poems has it been deemed necessary to make slight omissions and changes, “that the reverence due to boys might be well observed.” The Introduction consists of Suggestions on ''Teaching of English. The latter half of the volume is occupied with'' copious notes, critical, etymological, and explanatory, calculated to give the learner much insight into the structure and connection of the English ''tongue. An Index to the Notes is appended.''

This work traces the different stages of development through which the various Teutonic languages have passed, and the laws which have ''regulated their growth. The reader is thus enabled to study the relation'' which these languages bear to one another, and to the English language in ''particular, to which special attention is devoted throughout. In the'' chapters on Ancient and Middle Teutonic Languages no grammatical form is omitted the knowledge of which is required for the study of ancient ''literature, whether Gothic, or Anglo-Saxon, or Early English. To each'' chapter is prefixed a sketch showing the relation of the Teutonic to the ''cognate languages, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Those who have mastered'' the book will be in a position to proceed with intelligence to the more elaborate works of Grimm, Bopp, Pott, Schleicher, and others.

The different families are printed in distinguishing colours, thus facilitating reference.