A Primer of Historical English Grammar.
By HENRY SWEET. 112 pages.
"THE object of this book," the author says, "is to give the essentials of historical English grammar as far as it is possible within the limits of one hundred pages, excluding syntax, but including the history of the language, phonology, inflections, particles, composition, and derivation." This is a large aim for a very small book. For example, the history of English is treated in ten pages. Yet the little book is full to the brim of interesting facts in regard to phonology, inflection, and derivation, so that if carefully studied it must be of real value. A commendable feature is the appendix, containing short examples from all periods of English, together with copious notes.
—The School Review, Vol. 4 [1896]
