Language & Communication

A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose

J. R. R. Tolkien

A Middle English Vocabulary, designed for use with Sisam’s Fourteenth‑Century Verse & Prose, is a specialised…

Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822

Garrick Mallery

The volume is the Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, a government‑issued record submitted to the…

The Romance of Names

Ernest Weekley

Essay on the Principles of Translation

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee

The work is a scholarly essay by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, a prominent eighteenth‑century…

Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious

Leopold Wagner

Leopold Wagner’s Names: and Their Meaning is a reference work that sets out to catalogue the origins and…

Hossfeld's Spanish Dialogues, and Idiomatic Phrases Indispensible for a Rapid Acquisition of the Spanish Language

Cornett, W. N. (William N.); Hossfeld, C.

Hossfeld’s Spanish Dialogues and Idiomatic Phrases is a comprehensive textbook aimed at learners who need a…

Principles of literary criticism

I. A. Richards

Ivor Armstrong Richards’s Principles of Literary Criticism is a systematic treatise that seeks to rebuild the…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language

F. Max Müller

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 gathers a series of scholarly essays by Friedrich Max Müller, a…

Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística

Julio Cejador y Frauca

Este libro es una recopilación de ensayos y artículos que Julio Cejador y Frauca dedicó a la literatura y a…

The Grammar of English Grammars

Goold Brown

The Grammar of English Grammars is a comprehensive textbook that sets out to be more than a mere reference…

French Conversation and Composition

Harry Vincent Wann

Harry Vincent Wann’s French Conversation and Composition is a classroom‑oriented workbook that pairs short,…

The English Language

R. G. Latham

The work is a scholarly grammar of English that sets out, from its very first page, an ambitious aim: to…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborum

of Halicarnassus Dionysius

Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition presents the Greek text of the ancient treatise De…

The Origin of Thought and Speech

M. Moncalm

The work is a philosophical essay that opens with a restless, first‑person meditation on the chaos of daily…

The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development

Levi L. Conant

The work is a scholarly survey of the origins and development of the human number concept, written by Levi L.

Mr. Honey's Beginner's Dictionary (English-German)

Winfried Honig

The Categories

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Categories is a systematic treatise on the ways in which things can be spoken about and thought…

Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources

F. Edward Hulme

Proverb Lore is a scholarly survey of the world’s sayings, compiled by the antiquarian F. Edward Hulme.

Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552

Garrick Mallery

Garrick Mallery’s report, issued as the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (1879‑1880), is a…

Public Speaking

Clarence Stratton

Clarence Stratton’s Public Speaking is a practical treatise that begins by tracing the historic dominance of…

English spelling and spelling reform

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury’s English Spelling and Spelling Reform is a scholarly treatise that grew out of a…

New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words

William Swinton

William Swinton’s New Word‑Analysis offers a systematic handbook for the study of English derivational…

The ethics of rhetoric

Richard M. Weaver

Richard M. Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a scholarly examination of Plato’s Phaedrus, treating the…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4

John Locke

This volume presents the second part of John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, drawn from the…