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Excerpt from Colorado College Studies, Vol. 12: June, 1904; Modern Language Number For a modern language is primarily a varying sequence of sound-symbols, recalled for the car through the eye by the secondary symbols of printer's ink. It has its own peculiar rhythm and cadence, characteristic of the feeling of the people whose collective experience gave them birth. These elements, distinct from the sound-values of the in dividual vocables, impart to the latter a variety of musical quality, whose appreciation is one of the most important and also one of the most difficult acquisitions of the lan guage student. No adequate conception of the beauties of lyric, epic, or dramatic poetry, or even of musical prose, is possible for one deaf to the subtle adjustment of time and tune characteristic of the spoken word. Mere instruction in the pronunciation of vowels and consonants, when reinforced by no long-continued efforts of the learner at reproducing them in connected discourse, is an inadequate means to a good end. For the sound symbol, alone and in connection, becomes graven upon the memory and vividly associated with its intellectual and emotional equivalent in proportion to the self-activity in volved in its use. No amount of theoretical or practical explanation of the teacher can take the place of this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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