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X Preface.
objection, or such an one as has been made to letter-changes, of
an illegitimate use having been made of its methods, is to
mistake the scaffolding, by means of which an edifice is erected,
for the permanent'structure itself. If a little more attention were
bestowed upon the historical development of different branches of
science, the mistake would not be so frequently made. We should
then learn what a larofe amount of scaffolding and useless mate-
rials are cast aside in the course of a single century's growth —
scaffolding and materials which may, perhaps, have fonned the
sole subject of that century's intellectual strife.
Once the Celtic tongues were proved to be Aryan, the detailed
study of their grammar, from a comparative philological point of
view, became a necessity in connection with the comparative
grammar of the whole family. In 1856 a special jom-nal was
established in Germany, called Beitrdge zur vergleichenden Sprach-
forschung, devoted to the Aryan, Celtic, and Slavonian languages,
edited by Drs. Kuhn and Schleicher, as a kind of supplement
to the well-known Zeitsclirift fur vergleichende Sprachkunde,
foimded by Drs. Th. Aufrecht and Ad. Kulin, and now edited
by Dr. Kuhn alone, the domain of which is the Germanic,
Greek, and Latin. Of the Beitrage, a volume consisting of four
parts appears every two years; three volumes have already
been published. It is eminently entitled to the support of
all persons interested in the advancement of Celtic philology,
and no public library in Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, at
least, should be vtdthout a copy. Besides the papers published
in this repertory, there is now quite a Celtic philological literature,
of which I shall only mention a few of the most important works,
namely, the remarkable book of Gllick, about the Celtic names
which occur in C^sar {Die hci C. J. Ccesar vorhommenden kel-
tischen Namen, in Hirer Echteit festgestellt imd erlciutert von Cr. W.
Gllick, Munich, 1857); the Ethnogenie Gauloise of the Baron
Belloguet, which contains a Gauhsh glossary, and a collection of
Gaulish inscriptions ; the Monuments des Anc{e7is Idiomes Gau-
lois, par H. Monin, Ancien eleve de I'Ecole Normale. Paris,
1861; and the Origines Europceae — Die Alien Volker Europas
mit iliren Sippen und Nachharn: Studien von Lorenz Dief en-
bach. Frankfurt a. Jf., 1861.
Among the Celtic papers which appeared in the Beitrage
objection, or such an one as has been made to letter-changes, of
an illegitimate use having been made of its methods, is to
mistake the scaffolding, by means of which an edifice is erected,
for the permanent'structure itself. If a little more attention were
bestowed upon the historical development of different branches of
science, the mistake would not be so frequently made. We should
then learn what a larofe amount of scaffolding and useless mate-
rials are cast aside in the course of a single century's growth —
scaffolding and materials which may, perhaps, have fonned the
sole subject of that century's intellectual strife.
Once the Celtic tongues were proved to be Aryan, the detailed
study of their grammar, from a comparative philological point of
view, became a necessity in connection with the comparative
grammar of the whole family. In 1856 a special jom-nal was
established in Germany, called Beitrdge zur vergleichenden Sprach-
forschung, devoted to the Aryan, Celtic, and Slavonian languages,
edited by Drs. Kuhn and Schleicher, as a kind of supplement
to the well-known Zeitsclirift fur vergleichende Sprachkunde,
foimded by Drs. Th. Aufrecht and Ad. Kulin, and now edited
by Dr. Kuhn alone, the domain of which is the Germanic,
Greek, and Latin. Of the Beitrage, a volume consisting of four
parts appears every two years; three volumes have already
been published. It is eminently entitled to the support of
all persons interested in the advancement of Celtic philology,
and no public library in Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, at
least, should be vtdthout a copy. Besides the papers published
in this repertory, there is now quite a Celtic philological literature,
of which I shall only mention a few of the most important works,
namely, the remarkable book of Gllick, about the Celtic names
which occur in C^sar {Die hci C. J. Ccesar vorhommenden kel-
tischen Namen, in Hirer Echteit festgestellt imd erlciutert von Cr. W.
Gllick, Munich, 1857); the Ethnogenie Gauloise of the Baron
Belloguet, which contains a Gauhsh glossary, and a collection of
Gaulish inscriptions ; the Monuments des Anc{e7is Idiomes Gau-
lois, par H. Monin, Ancien eleve de I'Ecole Normale. Paris,
1861; and the Origines Europceae — Die Alien Volker Europas
mit iliren Sippen und Nachharn: Studien von Lorenz Dief en-
bach. Frankfurt a. Jf., 1861.
Among the Celtic papers which appeared in the Beitrage
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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