Language & Communication

Early Theories of Translation

Flora Ross Amos

Flora Ross Amos’s Early Theories of Translation is a scholarly survey that maps the evolution of English…

English: Composition and Literature

W. F. Webster

This work is a concise textbook on English composition, written by William Franklin Webster after his 1898…

Latin for Beginners

Benjamin L. D'Ooge

The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Arthur John Booth

Arthur John Booth’s work is a scholarly survey of the discovery and decipherment of the trilingual…

The slang dictionary: Etymological, historical and anecdotal

John Camden Hotten

This work is a scholarly reference that catalogues the ever‑shifting vocabulary of English slang, cant and…

Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

Edmund Luce

Edmund Luce’s *Helps to Latin Translation at Sight* is a teaching manual aimed at schoolboys learning to…

The book of wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions That Are Asked and Which All Should Be Able to, but Cannot Answer...

The Book of Wonders is an encyclopedic compendium that sets out to answer the myriad everyday questions that…

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S

Noah Project Gutenberg; Webster

The work is an exhaustive alphabetical reference that treats each entry as a miniature encyclopedia of…

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7]: A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Farmer, John Stephen; Henley, William Ernest

This volume is a scholarly reference work that catalogues the slang, cant and “heterodox speech” of…

The Art of Public Speaking

Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg); Carnegie, Dale

The work is a practical treatise on the art of public speaking, written by J.

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

William Greenfield

This work is a compact Greek‑English lexicon devoted exclusively to the words that appear in the New…

A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay

Sir William Edward Maxwell

This work is a scholarly manual on Malay, written by Sir William Edward Maxwell, whose aim is to combine an…

Geographical etymology: A Dictionary of Place-names Giving Their Derivations

Christina Blackie

Christina Blackie’s Geographical Etymology is a scholarly reference work that sets out to explain the origins…

The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 3, Myths and Languages The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3

Hubert Howe Bancroft

The volume is a sprawling nineteenth‑century reference work that gathers together the myths, religious…

A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes

Oliver Optic

The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

H. L. Mencken

The treasury of languages: A rudimentary dictionary of universal philology

The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti With an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern

Charles William Russell

Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language

Diego Collado

German Science Reader An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering

Charles Frederick Kroeh

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)

Die Deutschen Familiennamen, geschichtlich, geographisch, sprachlich

Albert Heintze

An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises

Kittredge, George Lyman; Farley, Frank Edgar

A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs Comprising French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index