PROFESSORS FOWLER AND MARCH'S

SERIES OF

ENGLISH GRAMMARS.

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN ITS ELEMENTS AND FORMS. With a History of its Origin and Development, and a full Grammar. Designed for Colleges, advanced Students, and Libraries. By WILLIAM C. FOWLER, LL.D., late Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. New and Revised Edition. 8vo, Cloth, $2 50; Sheep extra, $3 00; Half Morocco, $4 75. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN ITS ELEMENTS AND FORMS. With a History of its Origin and Development. Abridged from the Octavo Edition. Designed for General Use in Schools and Families. To which is added March's Method of Philological Study of the English Language. 12mo, Sheep, $1 75.

COMMON SCHOOL GRAMMAR. Easy Lessons in Etymology and Syntax. Abridged from the Octavo Edition of "The English Language in its Elements and Forms." Prepared for General Use in Common Schools. To which is added March's Parser and Analyzer. A New Edition, Revised, with the Addition of Exercises for Young Pupils. 16mo, Cloth, 75 cents. MARCH'S METHOD OF PHILOLOGICAL STUDY. Method of Philological Study of the English Language. By FRANCIS A. MARCH, Professor of the English Language and Comparative Philology in Lafayette College. 12mo, Cloth, 75 cents; Paper, 60 cents.

A Parser and Analyzer for Be16mo, Flexible Cloth,

MARCH'S PARSER AND ANALYZER.
ginners, with Diagrams and Suggestive Pictures.
40 cents.

MARCH'S ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR. A Comparative Grammar of the
Anglo-Saxon Language, in which the Grammatical Forms of the Anglo-
Saxon are illustrated by Comparison with those of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin,
Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Old High German. 8vo, Cloth, $2 5c.
MARCH'S ANGLO-SAXON READER. 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.

I. The Unabridged Edition of Professor Fowler's great work on the English Language is well known to all scholars and teachers. It is not only without a rival in its historical etymology, but no other grammar published in this country pretends to go over the same course. Complete indexes have been newly added. The Verbal index contains nearly 9000 words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes, which may be found discussed in the work. Every student should keep it by him, ready for consultation as to the history and present use of words and idioms, pronunciation, etymology, and syntax.

II. The Method of Philological Study consists of passages from Bunyan, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Chaucer, with progressive questions upon them, which bring the study of Grammar in connection with etymology, rhetoric, poetry, and criticism, and with such instructions and suggestions that it is believed any teacher may begin philological study without embarrassment and go on with success. Constant references to the grammar guide and instruct the students, and they are drilled to methods which will make it easy to go on with the great English classical authors, and study them all in those philological aspects which the text-books of the author have been designed to make familiar to American teachers. Thus it is hoped this series may become not merely interesting reading, but permanent hand-books-the last to leave the hands of American scholars.

III. The Common School Grammar contains Exercises for the pupil, and a Key, prepared by Miss Anne C. Webb, the distinguished principal of the Zane Street Grammar School, Philadelphia, and March's Parser and Analyzer. The value of this volume as a text-book for young pupils is greatly increased by its connections with the two larger volumes, with which it is in harmony, and which they may study, when they are older, if they wish to perfect themselves in their knowledge of English Grammar.

IV. The Parser and Analyzer enables teachers to set their pupils to applying the definitions and rules of Grammar as fast as they learn them. It is made up mainly of progressive exercises in the form of problems, which train the pupil to see, hear, and think, as well as remember. Pictures are given to suggest words and sentences which the class have to furnish in answer to the problems. A system of analyzing in diagrams is also taught, which will be found easy, stimulating, helpful every way. It is believed that thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of scholars will thank Messrs. Harper & Brothers and their artists for this beautiful little book.

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Professors Fowler and March's Series of English Grammars.

EXTRACTS FROM RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE OCTAVO EDITION.
From Rev. W. G. T. SHEDD, D.D.
Having examined the present and preceding edition
of Professor Fowler's English Grammar, I am pre-
pared to recommend it as a comprehensive manual
containing the results of the most learned and accu-
rate investigation in English philology and criticism,
stated in a clear and brief manner, and arranged in a
systematic order. It seems to me to be admirably
adapted to the wants of academies and colleges; and
I have no doubt that, if employed with fidelity by
teachers, this work will do very much to promote a
thorough and idiomatic knowledge of the English
language.

From the Hon. CHARLES J. M'CURDY, late Minister to
Austria.

From the Hon. D. D. BARNARD, late Minister to Prussia.
This work is one of great labor and research, and
the plan and completeness of execution seem to me
most admirable. It has supplied a great want. The
systematic study of language through the medium of
the English tongue has been too long neglected; and
I can not but hope that, in this particular, a better
habit of discipline and education for the American
scholar will now prevail.

Your book can not fail to be the means of making the language better understood and better appreciated

both at home and abroad.

From the Hon. EDWARD EVERETT.

It is unquestionably a work of great ability, and can not be read by any person, however well instructed in the philosophy of our language, without imparting new views, and opening profitable trains of thought. From JOEL JONES, LL.D., late President of Girard College, Philadelphia.

A work of uncommon merit. The plan of it is comprehensive. The execution of it evinces extensive research, good judgment, and a classic taste. As a whole the work is eminently instructive. Professor Fowler has supplied a want hitherto felt by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

Unquestionably it is the most thorough and perfect,
and best adapted to the important purpose for which
it is designed, of all productions which have appeared
on the subject.
When at Vienna I loaned my copy of it to Baron
Von Hamer, the celebrated Oriental scholar, and the
most eminent linguist on the continent. He exam-
ined it carefully, and expressed great satisfaction with
it and admiration of it. Indeed he remarked that it
gave him a clearer insight into the Philosophy of our
language than any work which he had ever seen.
From Rev. J. W. ALEXANDER, D.D.

Professor Fowler's work on the English language
bears marks of sound scholarship and cautious judg
ment; and it deserves to be in the hands of every
professor and student of the English tongue. It ought
to be welcome to all who desire to see our language
traced up to its venerable but neglected originals.

From the Hon. CHARLES SUMNER.

I make haste to express my sense of the value of
your work as a contribution to the study of our lan-
guage. With the guide you have furnished, the stu-
dent will be conducted through the perplexities of our
mother tongue to a knowledge of its historical origin,
its component parts, and its actual grammar; while
the practical rule for the use of words in our day by
the presiding principles of taste will be fixed in his
mind. It is much to have done such a work, and 1
congratulate you on your happy success.

From E. C. BENEDICT. Esq., late President of the Board
of Education, City of New York.

It seems to me that your work is the book for the
times-a book from which men are to learn English,
and by which men are to teach English which is En-
glish; and I hope to see it generally adopted as a text-
book in the higher schools throughout the nation.

From Professor Espy.

From Professor DE VERE, University of Virginia. It is much the most learned work of the kind that I can safely say that I have left no English Grammar unread, and yet know none-not even that of our has ever appeared in the English language, and though common correspondent Dr. Latham excepted-at all it is too large for a school book to be put into the comparable to yours in depth of research or in lucid-hands of children, every teacher ought to have it, and ity of exposition. I have, of course, taken special delight in the first, more strictly speaking, philological part of your grammar, and have to thank you for inany a valuable addition to my stock of information. From THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, LL.D., President of Yale College.

I have regarded it as a very valuable contribution to our knowledge of our language and of its Grammar, and as supplying a gap which was very apparent, and by many very sensibly felt.

From the Hon. LEWIS CASS.

study it in all its parts, that he may be the better qual-
with a zeal that has hardly yet begun to abate, and
ified to teach. I have taught Grammar for fifty years
though I found some things in the work with which I
do not agree, I feel that I am fully rewarded, even at
my advanced age, for all the time that I have devoted
to the careful examination of this very learned and
beautifully-written work.

From Prof. Joux S. HART, LL.D., Principal of the State
Normal School, Trenton, N. J.

the more direct investigations into the English and
its parent Saxon. As an authoritative book of

Professor Fowler's book is by far the most important and valuable work on English grammar extant. It is an elaborate, scholarly, and logical digest of the I now perform the agreeable duty of thanking you for this mark of your attention, and of congratulating the fruits of the recent contributions to English phiwhole subject, incorporating into a systematic treatise the country upon the possession of one of the most lology by all the great English, American, and Contisatisfactory and philosophical treatises which this sub-nental writers on Comparative Grammar, as well as ject has called out. Its analytical investigations, its historical deductions, and its lucid arrangement equally commend it to the public favor; and while it is a hand-book for the youth, it is a companion for the ripe scholar, and may be profitably studied at any period of life. The philosophy of speech is one of the most curious subjects of human investigation, and you have brought the true spirit of inquiry to the test, and I trust the value of your labors will be appreciated by the reading community.

From THOMAS H. SKINNER, D.D., Professor of Rhetoric
in the Union Theological Seminary, New York.
It is a work of rare excellence and of high utility,
and it deserves to be regarded as a distinguished
monument of American learning and authorship.

From the Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP.
Your work on the English language is a most inter-
esting and instructive treatise, and has given me a
fresh impression of the richness of that old mother
tongue which we are privileged to speak. Few stud-
ies could be more entertaining or more useful than to
trace it back to its small beginnings, and to explore
the varied sources from which so noble a stream has
derived its beauty and its strength. Your work seems
eminently designed to aid such studies, and it can not
fail to commend itself to those who enjoy an opportu-
nity to pursue them.

ence for the common-school teacher; as a text

for colleges and higher seminaries of learning; at an
indispensable part of the library of every professional
gentleman, and, indeed, of every educated gentleman,
laborious research, creditable alike to scholarship and
whether professional or not; and, finally, as a work of
letters, its publication is hailed as forming an era in
the history of English Grammar, of which it forms in-
comparably the fullest and the most satisfactory ex-
position extant.

From W. B. SPRAGUE, D.D., Albany.

We venture to say that this is the most thorough
philosophical work on English grammar of which the
language can boast. It is distinguished for rigid
tion. It is designed especially for advanced students.
analysis, and strict perspicuity and minuteness of dic-
We doubt not that it is destined to become a text-book
in most of our higher literary institutions. Professor
Fowler has evidently caught the mantle of his illustri-
ous father-in-law, Noah Webster.

From Rev. W. A. STEARNS, D.D., LL.D., President of
Amherst College.

The work has reached a stage of excellence which
must place it, without a question, above all rivals in
its kind.