ald Stewart.

'Dugald Stewart was too wise not to see that the conclusions drawn
from the facts about Sanscrit were inevitable. He therefore _denied
the reality of such a language as Sanscrit altogether_, and wrote
his famous essay to prove that Sanscrit had been put together,
after the model of Greek and Latin, by those arch forgers and
liars, the Brahmins, and that the whole of Sanscrit literature was
an imposture.'

But it was all of no avail. In 1808 Frederick Schlegel's work, _On the
Language and Wisdom of the Indians_, first 'boldly faced the facts and
conclusions of Sanscrit scholarship, and became,' with all its faults,
the 'foundation for the science of language.' Its great result may be
given in one sentence--it embraced at a glance the languages of India,
Persia, Greece, Italy, and Northern Europe, and riveted them by the
simple name 'Indo-Germanic.' Then in this school, begun by English
industry and shaped by German genius, came Franz Bopp, with his great
comparative grammar of the Indo-Germanic tongues, and the enormous
labors of Lassen, Rosen, Burnouf, and W. von Humboldt--a man to whose
incredible ability of every kind, as to his secret diplomatic influence,
history has never done justice. Grimm, and Rask--the first great Zend
scholar--were among these early explorers, who have been followed by so
many scholars, until some knowledge not merely of Greek and Latin, but
of the relations of _all_ languages, has become essential to a truly
good education.

Yet after all, Sanscrit, it was soon seen, was not the parent, but '_the
elder sister_' of the Indo-Germanic languages. Behind Greek, Latin, and
Sanscrit, Celtic, Teutonic, and Slavonic tongues, lurks a lost
language--the mysterious Aryan, which, reechoed through the tones of
those six remaining Pleiades, its sisters, speaks of a mighty race
which once, it may be, ruled supreme over a hundred lands, or perchance
sole in the Caucasus. It is strange to see philologists slowly
reconstructing, here and there, fragments of the Aryan,

'And speak in a tongue which man speaks no more.'

Among the many excellent elementary and introductory works on philology
which have appeared of late years, this of Mueller's is on several
accounts the best. It is clearly written, so as to be within the
comprehension of any reader of ordinary intelligence, and we can hardly
conceive that any such person would not find it an extremely
ent