For the rest, I have attempted to skim over such a wide area that
a full bibliography is impossible. As an introduction to a closer
study of the English language, the late Henry Bradley’s _The Making
of English_ is practically indispensable. Skeat’s _Etymological
Dictionary_ and _Concise Etymological Dictionary_ (of which it is
important to get the latest editions), and Weekly’s _Etymological
Dictionary of Modern English_ are extremely useful works of
reference, while for those who wish to acquire some sort of _feeling_
for the relationship between apparently dissimilar Aryan words, such
as _wheel_ and ‘kuklos’, _brother_ and ‘frater’, Skeat’s _Primer of
Classical and English Philology_ (Clarendon Press) is inexpensive,
brief, and to the point.
In conclusion, out of the very large number of books which I have
looked into, I append a list of a few which, either in whole or
in part, seem to have proved especially useful for my particular
purpose. But before laying down my pencil I must say a word on the
somewhat sweeping title given to the second part of this book. The
choice lay between an accurate and unwieldy title and a brief but
inaccurate one. I chose the latter evil, and the result, I believe,
is at any rate less misleading than a limiting phrase such as _The
English Outlook_ would have been.
It remains to add that such efficiency and precision as this little
volume may possess have been increased by the kindness of my wife,
who assisted me in the irksome task of indexing it, and of my father,
who undertook the equally exacting business of reading the sheets.
The list follows:
O. SCHRADER (translated by Jevons): The Prehistoric Antiquities of
the Aryan Peoples.
A. CARNOY: Les Indo-Européens.
WEISE: The Language and Character of the Roman People.
I. TAYLOR: Words and Places.
SKEAT: Place-names of Hertfordshire.
G. H. MCKNIGHT: English Words and their Background.
M. MÜLLER: Biographies of Words; On Comparative Mythology;
Theosophy.
L. NOIRÉ: The Origin and Philosophy of Language.
L. GEIGER (translated): Language and its Importance in the History
of the Development of the Human Race.
O. JESPERSEN: The Philosophy of Grammar; Language, its Nature,
Development, and Origin.
BRÉAL (translated): Semantics.
R. R. MARETT: Anthropology (Home University Library). (The chapter
on Language.)
LEWIS AND SHORT: A Latin Dictionary.
LIDDELL AND SCOTT: Greek-English Lexicon.
E. WALLACE: An Outline of the Philosophy of Aristotle (Cambridge
University Press).
R. STEINER (translated): Christianity as Mystical Fact.
J. S. REID: The Academica of Cicero. (The excellent notes and
indexes with which this book is provided make it a work of
reference concerning the terms in use in Greek philosophy and their
Latin translations.)
R. EUCKEN: Geschichte der Philosophischen Terminologie.
R. EUCKEN (translated): Fundamental Concepts of Modern Philosophic
Thought.
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