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and have produced results which stand the test of practical 

 application to individual dialects, as I myself have often proved. 

 (I beg to refer to my paper on South African language study 

 in 1914.) 



It is just that co-operation which we need in the 

 future between the idiomatist, who knows something of 

 comparative philology, the philologist, who knows some- 

 thing of the idioms, and the ethnologist, who knows, 

 as too often he does not, something considerable of 

 both. Our present enemies have taken the forehand and 

 advantage of us by securing this co-operation in the past. 

 They do this by Government endowment and publication of re- 

 search, instead of waiting, as we too often do, till we have broken 

 the heart of the researcher by leaving him to the tender mercies 

 of the publisher, who at his peril rises above the demands of 

 the inanes voces populi. Of university presses, it is true, we 

 reap better things ; would that somebody would endow in this 

 way our new universities here. 



Again, to illustrate from Meinhof 's work : Endemann in 

 Sesuto ; Hahn, Brincker, Kolbe, and \^iehe in Herero, etc., are all 

 laid under contribution by him for comparative purposes, and 

 are themselves often highly alive to the need and importance of 

 comparative work, and hence of a sound phonetic, in which again, 

 doubtless owing to the abominations of our English spelling, we 

 are ourselves but beginners. Steere, however, was in East Africa 

 an exception; in Swahili, Yao, Nyamwezi, Shaimbala and Konde, 

 he is acknowledged by the Germans as a match, and has a digne 

 successor in the truly venerable Archdeacon Woodward, of 

 Zanzibar, who has, if 1 remember aright, recently brought out 

 his sixth African grammar. To the scholarship of Mr. Madan. 

 senior student of Christ Church, was due a Swahili dictionary 

 and Testament. 



Would that the tradition of learned students after the pattern 

 of Bishops Colenso and Callaway, for example, had been better 

 kept amongst our missionaries here in South Africa, or adminis- 

 trators found with interest in their people equal to the production 

 of books upon them, such as those of Sir H. Johnston, the 

 Lugards, Routledge, and Mollis of the Masai. 



Let me pay a tribute to those who have (paved the path for 

 the comparative work of which I speak ; to the collections of Fr. 

 lorrend ; and, among idiomatic work, Kay's researches in Kaff- 

 raria ; Holden, on the Xosas in the 6o's (of whom and others 

 I am reminded by my kind friend the Parliamentary Librarian) ; 

 the Zulu labours of Fr. Bryant, those in Suto of the Paris Mis- 

 sion ; the magnificent and growing treasures of Kropif and his 

 continuators ; the Kaffir Bibles of Appleyard and others ; and 

 (last but not least) the many useful works of Mr. McLaren, 

 Mr. Scully, etc. ; and I beg to congratulate Miss A. Werner, more 

 especially, the Reader in Swahili at the London Language School, 

 on her persistent and increasingly successful efforts to make the 



