25 APRIL 1914, Page 41

A Grammar of Late Modern English. Part II., Section I,

A. By H. Poutama. (Groningen: P. Noordhoff. 13s. Gd. net.)— This is an amazing piece of work for a foreigner to have undertaken. The present instalment of some seven hundred pages deals only with nouns, adjectives, and articles. The first part of the work explained the sentence, first in its elements and then as a whole; and the next section will handle verbs and particles. Mr. Poutsma, who is English master at the Municipal " Gymnasium" of Amsterdam, has an immense knowledge of modern English—which be writes like a native. The most striking feature of his work is the copious wealth of examples, drawn chiefly from the great writers of the nineteenth century, with which it is illustrated.