This 1895 book, designed for classical students, brought to Britain the ideas of the German Neogrammarians on Indo-European comparative philology.

Preface; Part I. General Principles: 1. What is philology; 2. What is an Indo-Germanic language; 3. How do Indo-Germanic languages differ from other languages; 4. The principles of modern philology; 5. Phonetics; 6. Accent; 7. Differences between English and the classical languages, and between English and other Germanic languages; Part II. Sounds and their Combinations: 8. Indo-Germanic sounds; 9. Attic Greek alphabet and pronunciation; 10. Latin alphabet and pronunciation; 11. History of the original Indo-Germanic sounds in Greek and Latin; 12. On some combinations of consonants; 13. On some other sound changes; 14. Accent; Part III. Words and their Combinations: 15. General principles of word formation; 16. Noun morphology; 17. Classification of nouns; 18. Case suffixes; 19. Pronominal declension; 20. Uses of the cases; 21. Fragments of cases; 22. Stem formation in the nouns; 23. The numerals; 24. Verb morphology; 25. The present formations; 26. The future; 27. The perfect; 28. Past formations; 29. The moods; 30. Verbal nouns; 31. Uses of the verb forms; Appendices; Indices.