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<strong>English</strong> Studies<br />

2703 | 2704<br />

details, see T. G. Stevenson, A bibliographical list <strong>of</strong> the various publications<br />

by James Maidment from 1817 to 1878, Edinburgh 1883.<br />

George Perkins Marsh 1801–82<br />

Lectures on the <strong>English</strong> language. New York 1860.<br />

<strong>The</strong> origins and history <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong> language and the early literature<br />

it embodies. 1862.<br />

Contributions to periodicals<br />

Notes on Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood’s dictionary <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> etymology.<br />

Trans <strong>of</strong> the Philological Soc 1865.<br />

Old <strong>English</strong> literature. Nation 1865.<br />

Notes on the new edition <strong>of</strong> Webster’s dictionary. Nation 1866–7.<br />

Marsh translated Rask’s Old Icelandic grammar. He wrote on history,<br />

geography and American affairs. A number <strong>of</strong> his speeches to the House <strong>of</strong><br />

Representatives were printed.<br />

John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 1836–1902<br />

An easy grammar for beginners. 1864.<br />

<strong>The</strong> standard grammar. Edinburgh 1882.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>English</strong> language. Its grammar, history and literature. 1886.<br />

A new grammar <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong> tongue. 1887.<br />

A short grammar <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong> tongue with 300 exercises. 1890.<br />

<strong>The</strong> book <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong> language. 1891.<br />

Contributions to periodicals<br />

Plain <strong>English</strong>. All the Year Round 1868.<br />

Meiklejohn also edited Chaucer and Shakespeare and wrote textbooks on<br />

geography. He translated Kant’s Critique <strong>of</strong> pure reason (1862).<br />

George Washington Moon 1823–1909<br />

A defence <strong>of</strong> the Queen’s <strong>English</strong>. In reply to ‘a plea for the Queen’s<br />

<strong>English</strong>’ by the Dean <strong>of</strong> Canterbury. 2 pts 1863; 2nd edn as <strong>The</strong><br />

Dean’s <strong>English</strong>: a criticism <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> Canterbury’s essays on<br />

the Queen’s <strong>English</strong>, 1864.<br />

<strong>The</strong> bad <strong>English</strong> <strong>of</strong> Lindley Murray and other writers. 1868.<br />

Common errors in spelling and writing. 1875.<br />

Bad <strong>English</strong> exposed: a series <strong>of</strong> criticisms on the errors <strong>of</strong> Lindley<br />

Murray and other grammarians. 1876.<br />

<strong>The</strong> King’s <strong>English</strong>. 1881.<br />

<strong>The</strong> reviser’s <strong>English</strong>. 1882–6.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Bishop’s <strong>English</strong>. 2nd edn 1904.<br />

Moon wrote a novel, poetry and numerous works on art and theology as well<br />

as a tract on shortcomings in semaphore and the morse code.<br />

Richard Morris 1833–94<br />

<strong>The</strong> etymology <strong>of</strong> local names. Pt 1 (all pbd) 1857.<br />

Historical outlines <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> accidence, comprising chapters on<br />

the history and development <strong>of</strong> the language, and on wordformation.<br />

1872; rev H. Bradley 1893.<br />

Elementary lessons in historical <strong>English</strong> grammar. 1874; rev H.<br />

Bradley 1897.<br />

<strong>English</strong> grammar. 1875. One <strong>of</strong> J. R. Green’s <strong>Literature</strong> primers.<br />

Notes and queries [on Pali lexicography]. [1887].<br />

Also minor philological writings.<br />

Editions<br />

Roll’s Pricke <strong>of</strong> conscience. 1863.<br />

Early <strong>English</strong> alliterative poems <strong>of</strong> the West Midlands dialect <strong>of</strong> the<br />

fourteenth century. 1864 (EETS), 1934.<br />

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: an alliterative romance-poem.<br />

1864 (EETS), 1925.<br />

<strong>The</strong> story <strong>of</strong> Genesis and Exodus: an Early <strong>English</strong> song. 1865<br />

(EETS), 1895.<br />

Dan Michel’s Ayenbite <strong>of</strong> Inwyt: or remorse <strong>of</strong> conscience. 1866<br />

(EETS).<br />

Specimens <strong>of</strong> early <strong>English</strong> AD 1250–AD 1400, with grammatical<br />

introduction, notes and glossary. Oxford 1867; rev W. W. Skeat,<br />

Oxford 1872.<br />

Old <strong>English</strong> homilies and homiletic treatises <strong>of</strong> the twelfth and<br />

thirteenth centuries. EETS 2 ser 1868–73.<br />

Chaucer’s translation <strong>of</strong> Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae.<br />

1868 (EETS), 1886.<br />

Legends <strong>of</strong> the Holy Rood; symbols <strong>of</strong> the Passion and crosspoems.<br />

In Old <strong>English</strong> <strong>of</strong> the eleventh, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,<br />

1871 (EETS).<br />

An Old <strong>English</strong> miscellany: containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons,<br />

Proverbs <strong>of</strong> Alfred, religious poems <strong>of</strong> the thirteenth century.<br />

1872 (EETS).<br />

Cursor mundi: the cursur <strong>of</strong> the world – a Northumbrian poem <strong>of</strong><br />

the XIVth century in four versions. 6 pts 1874–93 (EETS).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Blickling homilies <strong>of</strong> the tenth century. 3 pts [1874–80] (EETS).<br />

Morris’s other editorial work included the Aldine Chaucer (1866), and the<br />

Globe Spenser (1869).<br />

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray 1837–1915<br />

Outline <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> language and literature. 1858 (priv ptd).<br />

Editions<br />

Sir David Lindesay’s works: the minor poems. 1863 (EETS).<br />

<strong>The</strong> complaynt <strong>of</strong> Scotlande, vyth ane exortatione to the thre estaits<br />

to be vigilante in the deffens <strong>of</strong> their public veil. 1872 (EETS).<br />

<strong>The</strong> romance and prophecies <strong>of</strong> Thomas <strong>of</strong> Erceldoune, with illustrations<br />

from the prophetic literature <strong>of</strong> the 15th and 16th centuries.<br />

1875 (EETS).<br />

A new <strong>English</strong> dictionary on historical principles, founded mainly<br />

on materials collected by the Philological Society. 11 vols Oxford<br />

1884–1933, 13 vols Oxford 1933 (a corrected re-issue, with introd,<br />

suppl and bibliography, as <strong>The</strong> Oxford <strong>English</strong> dictionary).<br />

Murray was chief <strong>of</strong> the NED, though his actual editorial responsibility<br />

covered only A–D, H–K, O, P and T.<br />

Writings<br />

<strong>The</strong> dialect <strong>of</strong> the southern counties <strong>of</strong> Scotland: its pronunciation,<br />

grammar and historical relations, with an appendix and a linguistical<br />

map <strong>of</strong> Scotland. 1873 (Philological Soc).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Romanes lecture 1900: the evolution <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> lexicography.<br />

Oxford 1900.<br />

Contributions to periodicals<br />

<strong>The</strong> Rushworth glosses. Academy 1874.<br />

Old <strong>English</strong> verbs in -cgan and their subsequent history. Trans <strong>of</strong><br />

the Philological Soc 1882–4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>English</strong> diphthong -ay. Academy 1890.<br />

Also a book on Orkney. For an appreciation, see H. Bradley, Sir James<br />

Murray, Proc Br Acad 8 1919 and S. Baldwin, <strong>The</strong> Oxford <strong>English</strong><br />

Dictionary 1884–1928; an address, [1928] and K. M. E. Murray, Caught<br />

in the web <strong>of</strong> words: James Murray and the Oxford <strong>English</strong><br />

Dictionary, Oxford 1979.<br />

Murray contributed some <strong>of</strong> the notes to Zupitza’s EETS edn <strong>of</strong> Guy <strong>of</strong><br />

Warwick. He was one <strong>of</strong> the founding members <strong>of</strong> the Hawick Archaeological<br />

Soc. His earliest lectures on philology are recorded in the Soc’s minute book and<br />

were summarised in the Hawick Advertiser. He also contributed the article<br />

on the <strong>English</strong> language to the 9th edn (1879) <strong>of</strong> the Encyclopaedia<br />

Britannica (rptd with revisions in the 11th edn, 1910).<br />

Robert Nares 1753–1829<br />

Elements <strong>of</strong> Orthoepy, containing the whole analogy <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong><br />

language so far as it relates to pronunciation, accent and quan-

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