The English Language by Logan Pearsall Smith 1912 [Leather Bound]

by Logan Pearsall Smith

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1912. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. 277 The English language by Logan Pearsall Smith Smith, Logan Pearsall

277 pages, Leather Bound

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born essayist and critic, and a notable writer on historical semantics.

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve been following the excellent and entertaining “History of English” podcast - https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ - I’m up to episode 93 “The Two Arthurs” - and nothing I have heard in this series struck me as contradicting what Logan Pearsall Smith has to say about the development of the language in its historical context.

A caveat: the book was published in 1912 and the language has galloped off in many directions since then. On the other hand, I did find the author’s attitudes surprisingly modern, sceptical and liberal.

[Max Booher · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Every sentence, every collection of words we use in speech or writing, contains, if we examine its component parts, a strange medley of words, old or modern, native or foreign, and drawn from many sources. But each posses its ascertainable history, and many of them bear important traces of the event or movement of thought to which they owe their birth.” - page 127