WITH COMPARATIVE FORMS IN OTHER LANGUAGES. Compiled from the best authorities. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM General Sir Henry Ponsonby, K.C.B., on behalf of HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. JOHN BEAMES, ESQ., C.S.I., Collector of Bardwan, Author of A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India," &c. SIR WALTER ELLIOT. PROFESSOR WHITNEY, of Yale College, U.S.A. BISHOP CALDWELL, Author of "A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages," remarks that this very valuable Vocabulary" is "a most important contribution to general Philology." THE VERY REVD. DR PAYNE SMITH, Dean of Canterbury, calls it "a very valuable work, and wellexecuted." PROFESSOR SIR MONIER WILLIAMS (of Oxford), calls it "a useful compilation."' PROFESSOR COWELL (of Cambridge) remarks that "many kindred words are undoubtedly such as all will accept," and that dubious etymologies could hardly be avoided where so many languages are included in the range of view." PROFESSOR F. W. NEWMAN remarks, "The idea of it is excellent, and the perseverance of the writer worthy of all praise." DR. ROST, of the India Office, writes, "The plan appears to me good, especially from the standpoint of the student of comparative Philology." DR. CUST, of the Asiatic Society, remarks, "It appears to me to be a very valuable work." THE HEAD MASTER OF MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE writes, "I envy you the enthusiasm and patience needful for a work of such labour and research. Its value is enormously increased by the very full apparatus of indices."' PRICE Is. 6d. THE TREASURY OF LANGUAGES, A Rudimentary Dictionary of Universal Philology. An industrious and faithful repertory of known facts which have never before been presented to English readers in a compendious, accessible, and connected form."-Civil Service Gazette. The arrangement is of course alphabetical; the locality of each language and dialect is given, its relation to the received classification is indicated, and grammars, vocabularies, &c., are mentioned."-The Watchman. It gives briefly not only the main features of every language and dialect written and spoken, but a list of works bearing on the history or elucidation of such a tongue."-Standard. A handy book of reference for readers."-English Churchman. It would be impossible to lavish too much praise upon the industrious and indefatigable compiler."A useful compilation."-Athenæum. Court Journal. An alphabetical list of all the known languages and dialects of the world, past and present, each language being classified iu accordance with the conclusions of the latest researches. In all important cases the chief characteristics of the language are noted, and the best authorities upon it given."-The Academy. ALL & CO.. 13, PATERNOSTER ROW. Literary Leaves for General Readers. MARCH 1, 1870. PRICE 6d. THE BASQUE PROBLEM SOLVED. PROFESSOR HUXLEY has stated, in his recent Lecture on the British races, that "the Basque Language is the despair of philologists." However true this statement may be, it is only because inquirers have perseveringly looked in every direction but the right one. The solution of the mystery really lies in a nutshell; for, while those who have, at different times, investigated the question, have done so with a pre-conceived idea that Basque cannot be Celtic, it will, I think, be proved that it is really the parent of modern Celtic, as spoken by the Welsh, the Bretons of N. W. France, the Irish, and the Highlanders of Scotland, as also by the Manxmen, and some others of our islanders. To illustrate this position, I have prepared three comparative vocabularies, giving illustrations of Basque, Celtic, English, and some other varieties, selected with a view to offer a contrast of results. I. The first vocabulary is taken from an interlineal translation, which will be found at the end of an "Essai" on the Basque language, by Van Eys, printed in French, and published by Van Goch, of Amsterdam, in 1867. |