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Mr. Marsh, who now [1865]
holds the post of Minister of the United States at the court of the
King of Italy, delivered the following Lectures in the autumn and
winter of 1858-59 at Columbia College in the city of New York. They
formed a course of what he terms 'post-Graduate Lectures,' and were
intended, he says, "to excite a more general interest among
educated men and women in the history and essential character of
their native tongue, and to recommend the study of the language in
its earlier literary monuments rather than through the medium of
grammars and linguistic treatises." This plan seems to me
preferable to a systematic grammatical course, which is usually
repulsive and seldom instructive to older students; and it has been
attended with such success that the work has not only reached a
fourth edition at New York in the course of two years, but has also
received the emphatic commendation of the most competent judges in
this country [England]. It might be liable to
misconstruction if I were to point out what appear to me the
peculiar excellences of the book as contrasted with other works
upon the same subject; but I may without impropriety quote the
opinion of one of ablest, perhaps the ablest living writer on the
Science of Language, who remarks that "Mr. Marsh's Lectures
certainly constitute one of the most acceptable contributions to
English scholarship which we have received for many years from the
other side of the Atlantic;" and that "we hardly know of any work
that we could more honestly recommend to those who, without wishing
to dive very deep into Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, and Gothic, would be
glad to learn all that is known about the origin, the history, and
character of their own tongue."
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Transcribed by Earl Gosnell