Foreign Language Study
Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect
A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years…
The Ontario Readers
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
A Handbook of the Kavirondo Language
Kenyan Luo (also known as "Dholuo") belongs to the Luo grouping within the Western Nilotic grouping of the Nilo-Saharan language f…
The Philosophy of Teaching
Saint Augustine's De Magistro, Englished here under the title of "The Philosophy of Teaching or a Study in the Symbolism of Language&qu…
Sign Language Among North American Indians
A comparative study of sign language among Native American peoples as it relates to other peoples of the 19 century world. - Summary by afut…
English and Cantonese Dictionary
John Chalmers’ English and Cantonese Dictionary offers a valuable glimpse into the state of Cantonese that was spoken in Canton and in the c…
The Greek War of Independence
Written in the style and language of Thucydides, and intended for students in the early stages of learning to read Ancient Greek, this brief…