Abstract
THIS is a very able and closely-reasoned book. Its object is to explain the cause and origin of that curious shifting of sounds known as Grimm's Law, in virtue of which a particular sound in one member of the Indo-European group of languages must answer to another particular sound in another member. The discovery of the law laid the foundation of comparative philology, and raised etymology from mere haphazard guesswork to the rank of a science, but the primary cause and reason of the law itself are still under discussion. We have still to learn why a classical aspirate must answer to a Low German media and a High German tenuis, or a classical tenuis to a Low German aspirate and a High German media. Grimm's Law: a Study. By T. Le M. Douse. (Trübner and Co., 1876.)
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