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Golden Fleece, Philip institutes

order of, 50.

Good usage dictates the correct in
English, 139.
"Gorboduc," 93.

Gosse (Edmund) on the poetry of
the trouvères, 180.

Gould (Edward S.) on law of
language, 262; views contro-
verted, 263.

Govea (Andrew) accompanied by
Buchanan to France, 78; death,
79.

"Government of the people, by the
people, and of the, people," 38.
Gower, John, 36, 44-46.
Grammar, 241-257; knowledge of,
desirable, 259; an anatomical
science, its value,' 264; the first
English, 261; function to follow
after, analyze, and describe, not
to dictate, 261; not indispen-
sable, 259; unknown to
masters of English, 263.
Grammarians correct grammarians,
259; the duty of, 264.

some

Grammatical forms confused, 24;
rules worthless, if not based on
usage, 260.

Granada, Prince of, 123-124.
Grand, 141.

Grandgent, Professor Charles H.,
287.

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, on the in-
fluence of the Bible, 120.

Gray, Thomas, 142.

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Grotius (Hugo) meets Milton, 126.
Growth of English, 11-138.
Guardian (The), established, 137.
Guiana, Raleigh's Narrative of a
Cruise to, 110.

Had got, 340.
Had went, 340.

Hague (The), English "Courant"
printed at, 133.

Haldeman, Dr. Samuel, 287.
Haley (Dr.) on the reading public,
305.

Hall, Fitzedward, 346.

Hallam (Henry), on Hooker, 88;

on Bacon, 112; on the Bible, 123.
Harris, Dr. William Torrey, pro-

nunciation and spelling, 283-284,
287; on the sound of "ch," 291.
Harrison on Heywood, 72.
Hathaway, Anne, 100.

Hazlitt (William) on big words,
319.

Hearne (Thomas) issues the
"Rhyming Chronicle," 29.
Hebrew words in Bible, 124.
Heer, 154.

Hempl, Dr. George, 287.

Hengest and Horsa aid Vortigern,

3; defeat Britons, 4.

Henry IV. of England an exile, 36.
Henry VIII. and the Church of
England, 66; and the religious
houses, 67; Coverdale's Bible
dedicated to, 70; rewards
Ascham, 76.

Henry (O.), 206.

Hercules, Pillars of, 1.

Heriot (James) befriends Bu-
chanan, 78.

Her'n, 154.

Herodotus, 1.

"Heroic verse" defined, 198.
Heterogeneous character of En-
glish, 11, 159-173.

Heywood, John, 72.

Hickes (George), fragment from
Caedmon, 16; on sources of En-
glish words, 162.

Himer, 154.

Hindu words in English, 169.
Hiser, 154.
His'n, 154.

Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis An-
glorum, 19.

Historic plays, Shakespeare's, 98.
"History of the Britons," character
of, 27; extract from, 28-29.
"History of English Kings," 27.
"History of Scotland," 80.
"History of the World," 109-110.
Hizzen, 154.

Hoccleve, Thomas, 155.
Holinshed (Raphael) on "taske,"

146.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 323.
Holste, Lucas, 126.

Holy Land, English soldiers in, 350.
Hone (William) on the abolition
of religious houses, 68.

Honorius, 3.

Hooker, Richard, 86-89.

Horne (Thomas Hartwell) on sta-
tistics of the Bible, 123.
Horton (Dr. Edward A.) on the
modern sex novel, 309.
"Household Words," 342.
Howard (Henry, Earl of Surrey),
69-70.

Howell, James, 329.

Huloet, Richard, 130.
Humanitarian, change of meaning,
213.

Hungarian terms in English, 169.
Huntingdonshire, Proclamation to
the people of, 25.

Huxley's (Thomas) definition of
literature, 174.

"I," the sound and symbol. See AI.
"i" sound, the so-called long, 292.
"i" in "marine," the sound of, 293.
"I done it," 347.

Ida the Torch-bearer, 5.
Idealism in literature, 184.
Idler (The), started by Samuel
Johnson, 137.

Idyl, the, 192, 200, 203-204.
Ierne, 1.

Illustrated Times (The) issued

without stamp, 136.

"Il Penseroso," by Milton, 126.
Imagery in rhetoric, 194.
"Imagination" defined, 192.
Imitation, tendency toward, 328.
Immigrants, the teaching of En-
glish to, 303.

Impartial, 141.

"Imperfect tense" defined, 252.
"Impersonal verb" defined, 250.
Incommode, 143.

Increase of one's vocabulary, the,
220.
"Indefinite pronoun" defined, 246-
247.
Indianapolis Journal (Editor of),
on vocabulary of average man,
214, 217-219.
Individuality in its relation to the
state, 325; in writing, 325-331;
shown in letter-writing, 328-329.
"Induction to the Mirrour of Mag-
istrates," by Sackville, 94.

Infinitive, Split. See SPLIT INFINI-

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Jewel (Bishop) befriends Hooker,
86.

John (King) and the Great
Charter, 25.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 14, 131;
starts "The Idler," 137; “curi-
ous" defined by, 143; "colleague"
defined by, 144; lexicographer"
defined by, 222, 342.
Jongleur, the, 34, 180.

Jones (Dr. Daniel) on English
pronunciation, 272.

Jonson, Benjamin, 105-108; on
language and style, 107-108;
on Francis Bacon, 114; on
Shakespeare, 97, 101; on the
strophe, 202.

Jonson, Broer, printer of English
"Courants," 133.
"Juliana," 18.

Jutes defeat Britons and land, 3;
settle in Kent, 3; settle in Isle
of Wight and Hampshire, 7.

Keats (John), Influence of Spenser
on, 85.

Keble (John), on the sixth book of
"Ecclesiastical Polity," 88.
Kent, Jutes settle in, 3; under
Mercian supremacy, 6-7; submits
to Offa, 7.

Keynor identified, 4.

Kingdom of West Saxons founded,
5; of Deira formed, 6.

King James version of the Bible,
see BIBLE.

"King's Book," The, 67.

"King's Quhair," The, 46, 47.
Kipling (Rudyard) on American
English, 333-335.

Kittredge (Prof. George L.) identi-
fies Malory, 61.

Ladd (Prof. George T.) on imagi-
nation, 193.

"Lady of the May," by Sir Philip
Sidney, 80.

"L'Allegro," by Milton, 126.

Lamb (Charles) on Spenser, 85.
Langland, William (Robert), 47-
48; alliterative character of his
verse, 48.

Language, subject to syntactical
license, 53.

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Languages of Britain, 9.
Lappenberg, Johann Martin, 4.
Large (Robert) Caxton's master,
54.

Late Middle English Period, 11, 34-
49.

Latimer, Hugh, 73.

Lawrence the Sexton, 50.

"Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity," by
Richard Hooker, 86, 88.
Layamon (Laweman), 31.
Learn used for "teach," 151.
"Learning," Francis Bacon's Essay
on, 115-116.

Lee (Sir Sidney) on Shakespeare,
98.

Leland's (fruits of) commission to
preserve literary collections, 67-
68.

Lesser used for "less," 145.
Less happier, 145.

Letter-name and its sound, lack of
relation between, 275.

Letters (number of) in different
alphabets, 239-240.

Letter-writing, individuality shown
in, 328-329.

Leveling of inflections, 24.

Libraries, effect of Henry VIII.'s
edicts on the, 68.

"Life and Reign of Edward V.,"
by Sir Thomas More, 63.
"Limiting adjective" defined, 254.
Linguistic character of the Bible,
123.

Lippincott's Magazine, 347.
Literature: its Elements, 174-211.

American Association of Col-
leges and Preparatory Schools
selections for the study of En-
glish, 208-211.

Literature, Professor Henry Seidel
Canby on the reading of English,
306-307.

-

Hon. John J. Delany on lack
of knowledge of English, 337.
Literary ballad, 205.

Lithgow (William), "fetching a
walk," 150.

London, English "Courants" first
appear in, 133.

London Gazette issued, 135.

Lord's Prayer (the) in Kentish
dialect, 46.

Louis XIV.'s aversion to "gros,"
141.

Lounsbury (Professor Thomas R.),
on authors using split infinitive,
157; on grammars, 260; on cor-
rect English, 340; on corrupt
English, 346, 347.

Lowell (James Russell), on Spen-
ser, 85; an editor, 323.
Lowth (Bishop) on "wrote" for
"written," 147.

Lubbock, (Sir John), Hundred
Best Books, 310, 384-385.
"Lycidas," by Milton, 126.
Lyly, John, "most brightest" used
by, 146.

"Lyric poetry" defined, 192, 200.

on

Macaulay's (Lord), description of
Milton, 124; Essays, 323;
Barrère, 327; on Milton, 327.
MacKellar (Dr. Thomas) on Cax-
ton's books, 56.

Madden (M. J. P. A.) on relations

of Caxton and Mansion, 56-57.
Mair, John, 78.

Maetzner's classification of prepo-
sitions, 257.

Malory, Sir Thomas, 61; described
by Caxton, 61.
Manchester Union (The) on num-
ber of words in the Bible, 124.
Mandeville, Sir John de,
36;
"Narrative" of his travels, 36;
extract from his "Pilgrymages
in Jerusalem, etc," 37.
Mansion, Colard, 55.

Manso, patron of Tasso, meets
Milton, 127.
Mantegazza, Paolo, 229.
Maori terms in English, 169.

March, Dr. Francis A., Sr., 287.

Margent used for margin, 142.
Marsh (Professor George P.), on
Anglo-Saxon speech, 8; on

neglect of Anglo-Saxon and Old
English, 13; on the contents of
dictionaries, 164, 165; on the
dictionaries of his day, 221; on
the study of the dictionary, 223;
on speech corruption, 340.
Martyrs, Book of, 73, 75.
Mary (Queen) appoints Roger
Ascham her Latin secretary, 76;
increases his pension, 76.
Mary Queen of Scots, Buchanan
appointed tutor to, 79.
Masters of English ignorant of
grammar, many, 263.
Matthews (Professor Brander) on

the split infinitive, 158; on the
use of foreign words in English
169; on the vitalizing element
of slang, 344-345; on style, 345.
Matthews (Sir Tobie), appreciation
of Francis Bacon, 114.

Maxwell (Dr. William H.), member
of N. E. A. special committee on
phonetics, 287.

Meiklejohn on English sounds, 132.
Meistersinger, the, 181.

Melodrama, the, 190.
Memory (child's),

unnecessarily

taxed in learning pronunciation,
270-271.

"Men of the March," 6.

Menage (Gilles) on Louis XIV.

141.

Mercia (kingdom of) settled, 6;
counties embraced by kingdom
of, 8.

Mercians supreme, 6; decline, 7.
"Meter" defined, 196-198.

Metrical character of verse, 196.
Middle comedy, 189.

Midlands (language of), dominant,
44.

Milton (John), extent of his vo-
cabulary, 102; life and works,
125-130; on "Education," 127,
319; thirty-line sentence by, 319-
320.

and participial inflections, 148-
149.

use of "distract," 149.

use of "fetch my round," 149.
use of 'forsook," 147.

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Miracle play, 89-91, 185.

Mirrour of Magistrates, Induction

to, by Sackville, 94.

Mistook used for "mistaken," 147.
"Mode" defined, 251.

Modern English, 12, 53, 124-138.
Modern Language Association, 287.
Modern Period, 49, 124-138.
Mohammedan (terms from) world.
used in English, 171.
Monasteries centers of learning, 34.
Monks, the, 23-34.
Monodrama, 192.

Monolog (dramatic) defined, 205.
Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley),
329.

Moralities (the), 91.

Morality play, 185.

More, Sir Thomas, 62-65.

More better, 145.

More happier, 145.

More readier, 146.
More sharper, 145.
Morley, Viscount, 323.
Morte d'Arthur, 61.
Most basest, 145.
Most boldest, 146.
Most brightest, 146.
Most heaviest, 146.
Most Highest, 145.

Most perfect, 146.

Most straitest, 145.

Most unkindest, 146.

Motley, John Lothrop, 50.
Murray (Earl) appoints Buchanan
principal of St. Leonard's Col-
lege, 79.

Murray, Sir James A. H., 13; re-
produces Caxton's translation of
Vergil's "Eneydos," 60; citation
of Palsgrave's use of "fetch"
from the "New English Diction-

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National Education Association
Committee's Alphabet used
Funk and Wagnalls New Stand-
ard Dictionary, 302-303.
Navarretta, battle of, 35.
Navigators enriched the language,
166.

"Necessary Erudition," The, 67.
Necessityed, 141.

Negative, the double, triple, and
quadruple, 144.

"Neuter verb" defined, 250.

"New Atlantis," 114.

New Comedy, 189.

"New English Dictionary," 293,
294.

News as a singular, 155.

"News Letter," printed in Dutch,
133, 134.

"Newsletter" issued, 135.

Newspaper English, its quality,
137.

Newspaper press, introduction of,
132-135.

Newspaper Stamp Tax, 136.

Newspapers (increase of), under
Charles II., 135; causes (tax-
ation), 136.

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