46 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF 



Trench (R. C.) continued. 



carefully rezdsed, and a considerable number of new synonyms added. 

 Appended is an Index to the synonyms, and an Index to many other 

 words alluded to or explained throughout the ^vork. "He is," the 

 ATHENAEUM says, "a guide in this department of knowledge to 

 whom his readers may entrust themselves with confidence" 



ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. Lectures Addressed (originally) 

 to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. 

 Fourteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Fcap. 8vo. ^s. 6d. 



This, it is believed, was probably the first work which drew general 

 attention in this country to the importance and interest of the 

 critical and historical study of English. It still retains its place as 

 one of the most successful if not the only exponent of those aspects 

 of Words of which it treats. The subjects of the several Lectures 

 are I. "Introductory" II. "On the Poetry of Words." III. 

 "On the Morality of Words." IV. "On the History of Words." 

 V. "On the Rise of Neiv Words." VI. "On the Distinction ef 

 Words." VII. "The Schoolmasters Use of Words." 



ENGLISH PAST AND PRESENT. Seventh Edition, revised 

 and improved. Fcap. 8vo. 4?. 6d. 



This is a series of eight Lectures, in the first of which Archbishop 

 Trench considers the English language as it ncnv is, decomposes some 

 specimens of it, and thus discovers of what elements it is compact. In 

 the second Lecture he considers what the language might have been 

 if the Norman Conquest had never taken place. In the folloiving 

 six Lectures he institutes from various points of view a comparison 

 between the present language and the past, points out gains which it 

 has made, losses which it has endured, and generally calls attention 

 to some of the more important changes through which it has passed, 

 or is at present passing. 



A SELECT GLOSSARY OF ENGLISH WORDS USED 



FORMERLY IN SENSES DIFFERENT FROM THEIR 



PRESENT. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 45-. 



This alphabetically arranged Glossary contains many of the most 



important of those English words -which in the course of time have 



gradually changed their meanings. The author's object is to point 



out some of these changes, to suggest how many more there may be, 



