Dwight Benjamin W. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries History and Influence

Second Edition, Revised And Corrected. — New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860. — 374 p.While this volume abounds in learning, it is also written in a spirited con amore style. It is the result of the author’s enthusiastic devotion for years, to a new and great science, which one of the first linguists of the country has justly said, “may almost be called the science of the age.” It has been prepared on the basis of several articles published at different times in The Bibliotheca Sacra, at Andover, and The New Englander, at New Haven; which have since been re-written and greatly enlarged and improved, and are accompanied with philological maps and tabular views of great interest. In their original although abbreviated form they attracted great attention in many directions, not only for the scholarship and research displayed in them, but also for the beauty of their style of composition, which has been lavishly commended by many of our best scholars and writers as “clear and vigorous,” “earnest and spirited,” “beautiful,” “attractive,” “elegant,” “fascinating,” and “brilliant,” and placing Mr. Dwight, in the language of still another, “among the most eminent writers of the day.”The book consists of three parts:Historical Sketch of the Indo-European Languages
History of Modern Philology.
Science of Etymology.