American E7igUsh. 



359 



6. George P. Marsh. Lectures on the English Language. Fourth 



edition ; New York ; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1859. Lecture 

 30, •* The English Language in America." 



7. G. F. Graham. A Book about Words ; London ; Longmans, 



Green & Co., 1869; chap. 13, ^'Slang Words and Americanisms." 



8. E. G.White. Words and Their Uses; Xew York; Sheldon & 



Co., 1870; chap. 3, "British-English and American-English." 

 Also, Every-Day English ; Boston ; Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 

 1880; chap. 6, American Speech." 



9. G. A. Barring ER. ^' Elude sur V Anglais pnrle mix Etats Unis 



{La Langue Amej'icaine)/' in Actes de la Societe Philologiquede 

 Paris, March, 1874. (Largely transferred from De Vere.) 



10. Various Encyclopedias — the Americana, Appleton's, Chambers', 

 Library of Universal Knowledge, etc. Article, Americanisms." 



11. Worcester's Dictionary, ed. 1881, p. I. 



III. Articles in Periodicals.* 



[The figures at the left of the decimal poiut indicate the volume : those at the right, the 

 page.] 



Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: 89.421; 102.399 ("Inroads 

 npon English.") 



Chambers' Journal: Dec. 20, 1873, p. 801; March 31, 1875, p. 171 

 ("American Nicknames") ; Sept. 25, 1875, p. 609. 



Eclectic Review: (N. S.) 31.356— April, 1820 (Review of Pickering). 



Longman's Magazine : 1.80 ("Some Points in American Speech 

 and Customs," by E. A. Freeman.) 



Nineteenth Cen'Tury, September, 1880. (''English, Rational and 

 Irrational," by Fitzedward Hall.) 



Penny Magazine; July 21 1838, p. 278. (Severe on American 



Speech.) 

 Quarterly Review : 10.528. 



Analectic Magazine: 3.404. (Sarcastic [?] defense of American 

 freedom of speech ; recommends invention of a new language.) 



Appletons' Journal : (N. S.) 11.315. ("English and American- 

 English," by Richard A. Proctor, from Gentleman's Magazine — 

 copied also, in part, inN. Y. Tribune^ Aug. 14, 1881.) 



Atlantic Monthly : 6.6G7 ; 40.233 ; 41.495 (R. G. White, Re- 

 view of Bartlett) ; 41.656 (do.); 42.97 (do.) ; 42.342 (do.); 

 42.619 (do.): 42.643 (Reply to White) ; 43.88 (White on Bart- 

 lett); 43.109 (freight train and spool); 43.379 (White on Bartlett) ; 

 43.656 (do.); 44.654 (White, "Assorted Americanisms"); 45.428 

 (Reply to White); 45.669 (White, ^'British Americanisms"); 

 47.697 (White, supplementary to Bai-tlett articles); 48.849. 



* For a number of the following references I am indebted to the courtesy of William 

 Frederick Poole, LL. D., of the Chicas^o Public Library, who very kindly allowed me the 

 use of the proof sheets of the new edition of his invaluable Index to Periodical Literature, 

 which was in press at the time of the compilation of this list. 



