The Modern Greek Language

In sending out into the world the present volume, I have little else to say by way of prefatory remark than to express the sense of the obligations I am under to those who have helped and encouraged me. Foremost among these must stand the name of F. W. Walker, Esq., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and Head Master of the Manchester Free Grammar School, my kind friend and instructor, who is the cause, in a sense which he will sufficiently understand, of the publication of this work.

My best thanks are also due to Professor Jowett for looking over a portion of the same while it was yet in embryo, and for most valuable suggestions which I have attempted to follow out; and to my friends S. Versus and A. Pantazides for the loan of various works which have been of indispensable service to me in the preparation of the final chapter of this book. Nor can I refrain from expressing my indebtedness to the learned lectures, and ever-ready willingness to communicate information with which all who have attended the public instructions of the Professor of Comparative Philology are so well acquainted, and which have had no unimportant influence in moulding the views hereinafter set forth.