Excerpt from Elements of English Speech
These notes were mostly made some time ago, and for a very different use but, thinking they may prove suggestive to the reader, I have collected them into this little volume, and publish them, even at the risk of being regarded another such snapper-up of unconsidered trifles as Autolycus proclaims himself in the Winter's Tale of Shakespeare. They are accompanied by so much of comment and theory as the subject in hand seems to call for to bring into clear view its difficulties, but with no attempt to treat any one topic in an exhaustive manner. The book is not designed for a text-book, nor is it intended to supplement text-books. The object of its publica tion will be fully accomplished if it encourages any reader to study our language critically in its forms and elements, if it suggests methods of investigation likely to prove useful in solving the many problems peculiar to English, if it exhibits anything of the fresh ness, the life, and the vigor of a still growing idiom.
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