"tThe ... majority of the papers are reprinted from the Transactions of the Philological society. Those on Old English etymologies and Disguised compounds in OE. are reprinted from Englische Studien and Anglia." - Pref I. Words, logic and grammar: Words, logic, and grammar (1876) The practical study of language (1884) Linguistic affinity (1900)- II. Progress of linguistic science: Report on Germanic and Scandinavian (1874) Presidential address on English philology and phonology (1877) English and Germanic philology (1878) The Indogermanic vowel-system (1880) Phonetics, general philology, and Germanic and English philology (1882)- III. History of English: The history of the th in English (1869) Dialects and prehistoric forms of Old English (1876) Old English etymologies (1879-85) Various notes: Disguised compounds in OE. (1880); The preterite of 'cuman' (1880); Stress in OE. (1882); English it (1883); History of g in English (1883)- IV. Shelley's nature-poetry (1888)- V. Phonetics and accounts of living languages: Sound notation (1880) Danish pronunciation (1873) Sounds and forms of spoken Swedish (1879) Russian pronunciation (1879) Spoken Portuguese (1883) Spoken Welsh (1884) 26