WALTON AND MABERLY'S CATALOGUE. 



A HANDBOOK OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, for the 



Use of Students of the Universities and higher Classes of Schools. 

 By Dr. R. G. LATHAM, F.R.S. Second Edition. 12mo. 7*. Qd. cloth. 



The object of the " Hand-book " is to present to students for examination, in a more 

 condensed form, the chief facts and reasonings of "The English Language." Less 

 elaborate than that work, it is less elementary than the " English Grammar." Like 

 all the other works by the same author, it gives great prominence to the ethnological 

 relations of our tongue ; and insists upon historical investigation, and the application 

 of the general principles of comparative philology, as the true means of exhibiting its 

 real growth and structure, in opposition to the more usual method of treating it as a 

 mass of irregularities. It has the further object of supplying a knowledge of those 

 laws of speech and principles of grammar which apply to language generally. 



AN ELEMENTARY ENGLISH GRAMMAR for the Use of 



Schools. By Dr. R. G. LATHAM, F.R.S., late Fellow of King's College, 

 Cambridge. Sixth Edition. 12mo. 4s. Qd. cloth. 



The object of this work is to lay down the principles of English grammar as dis- 

 tinguished from mere rules. These principles are traced by surveying the origin 

 and growth of the language, and particularly the several steps of the transition from 

 the inflected character of its Anglo-Saxon stage, to its present uuinflected structure. 

 The student in the middle and higher classes of schools, for whom the work is chiefly 

 intended, is made acquainted with the connection of the various branches of the great 

 Gothic stock of languages ; and, by learning the history of his own tongue, and its 

 relations to the dialects with which it is connected, acquires the elements of the 

 general philological classification of languages. The book presents him with new 

 and numerous facts, and habituates him to reasoning upon them ; and while the 

 work can be wholly mastered, independently of any knowledge of either of the 

 classical languages, as much logic is given as is necessary to explain the structure of 

 propositions. 



Some of the peculiarities of the grammar consist in a minute analysis of the powers 

 of the letters, whether single or combined ; in the comparison of irregular inflexions 

 with obsolete cognate words ; in tracing the laws and forms of the derivation of 

 words ; and in a treatise on the varieties of English verse, and their representation by 

 symbolical formulas. 



"It is a work in which grammar, no longer an assemblage of conventional rules of 

 speech, becomes a philosophical analysis of our language, and an elementary intellectual 

 exercise adapted to the highest purposes of instruction." Minutes of tlie Council of 

 Education, Vol. I. 



FIRST OUTLINES OF LOGIC, applied to Grammar and Ety- 

 mology. By Dr. R. G. LATHAM, F.R.S. 12mo. Is. 6d. cloth. 



The design of this little book (which is an introduction or companion to English 

 grammar) is to present a view of the first part of Logic, that which relates to isolated 



propositions, sufficient to enable the student of grammar to conceive accurate notions 



of the functions performed in discourse by the different parts of speech. Ir - 



simple propositions, without enlarging on the subject of propositions, combined with 

 one another (as in syllogisms, hypothetic propositions, &c.\ the author explains the 

 mode in which all those classes of words enter into sentences ; with the necessary 

 exception of the conjunction, which he defines as " a part of speech connecting two 

 propositions, but entering into the construction of neither." It is shown that neither 

 the grammatical nor the phonetic form of words is a sufficient test of the part of 

 speech to which they belong, that being determined only by the structure of proposi- 

 tions. A necessary connexion between logic and grammar being thus established, the 

 distinctions between propositions considered logically or grammatically are pointed 

 out the term proposition, in a logical point of view, being confined to indicative 

 sentences ; whereas, in grammar, it is made to include questions and commands ; 

 while the order of the subject and predicate in a proposition considered logically is 

 invariable, but variable if considered grammatically. It is also shown where the 

 logical and grammatical elements of a proposition do and do not coincide ; and the 

 nature of the extralogical elements of a proposition is explained. . 



