SPEECH AND LITERATURE

AN OUTLINE OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH
OF THE LANGUAGE, WITH CHAPTERS ON THE
INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE, THE VALUE OF
THE DICTIONARY, AND THE USE OF THE GRAM-
MAR IN THE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE

FRANK H. VIZETELLY, LITT.D., LL.D.
Managing Editor of the “Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the
English Language," Author of "A Desk-Book of Errors

COPYRIGHT, 1917 AND 1924, BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America

Published, February, 1915

TO

B. M. V.

MY STAR OF HOPE IN A NEW LAND

TO WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVOTION

THIS BOOK OWES ITS ORIGIN

IT IS DEDICATED

IN LOVING APPRECIATION

AND GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT

F. H. V.