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IN the highest rank among philological students the name of the late Lord Strangford claims a place. Profoundly versed in the living languages of the East, he spoke and wrote Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, with the greatest fluency, no less than also Hindustani and Afghan. His Lordship's great speciality was Modern Greek, in which he was universally admitted to be facile princeps. Indeed so thoroughly was he master of the subject that he would at once recognize, from his language, the locality of the home of the Greek with whom he chanced to be talking.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. Observations on the Turkish Language, now printed as originally written.-2. Ten Letters to E. A. Freeman, Esq. April, 1861-1864.—3. Two letters to Prof. Max Müller.—4. Essay on the Language of the Afghans.-5. A too Personal Pronoun. June, 1864.-6. A neglected Fact.-7. Dog-Persian in Excelcis. July, 1864.-8. Dam Atta.-9. Of Northern Albania. 1864.-10. Spratt's Researches in Crete. August, 1864.-11. On Cretan and Modern Greek. An Essay.-12. Twelve Letters to E. A. Freeman, Esq., written in 1865.-13. Church or Kirk. 1866.-14. Letter to Professor Max Müller.-15. Irish Archæology.-16. Popularised Ethnology.-17. Phonetic Writing.—18. Four Notes on "Scotchmen."-19. Orthographical Eyesores.—20. Bug or Beetle.-21. Two Notes on Breton Archæology.-22. Irish Proper Names.-23. Romans, Roumans, and Roumains. 4. Sleswick or Schleswig.-25. Old and New Irish Nationality. -26. Old and New Fenians.-27. Professorship of Slav.-28. "Greek Slavos."-29. Redcliff and Redclyffe.-30. Chur and Coire.-31. Gift of Tongues.—32. The Language Question in the Tyrol.—33. English, Latin and Greek Pronunciation. Three pieces.-34. On Celtic. Letters to Matthew Arnold.-35. Eight Letters to E. A. Freeman, written in 1867.-36. Galatia and Troy.-37. Quadzo-Lethonians.-38. Turkish Foreign Names.-39. Gran and Greece.-40. Swordhunter's Arabic.-41. Moses in the Hindoo Koosh.-42. Iranian and Aryan.—43. Awfully."-44. "Cui Bono " and Vidi Tantium.-45. "Tej."-46. Four letters to E. A. Freeman, Esq. 1868.-REVIEWS: 47. Four Years in the Ionian Islands.-48. Eastern Europe in Western Asia.-49. Sir S. Baker's Nile.-50. Palgrave's Arabic.-51. Abyssinia.

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