[Four important aspects concerning the physiology and psychology of reading are discussed: (1) the growth of word meanings; (2) the sound versus the graphic word-form as the carrier of meanings; (3) rapid silent reading and the physiological limitations of the eye and the voice; (4) mental supplementing of words, phrases, clauses, and ideas in rapid reading. An analysis of these points allows of a number of practical conclusions which are of basic significance for the pedagogy of reading foreign languages.]

[A specimen of cultivated speech of Columbus, Ohio, in phonetic notation. The intonation is marked throughout and analysed in a special section of the paper.]

[Linguistic development follows not one tendency, but two opposing ones : towards distinctness and towards economy. Either of these poles prevails, but both are present and alternately preponderant. At the basis of this polarity is the fundamental dualism speaker-hearer. The tension produced by this polarity constitutes the principle of life in language. Formal and functional grammar are looking at language from these two poles. A bridge between the violently antagonistic views of Wundt and Marty can be built on the two bases provided by this hypothesis.]

[An examination of four English manuscripts of the tenth century (Vercelli Book, Exeter Book, Junius Codex and Beowulf Codex) shows that a distinct tendency to level the vowels of final unstressed syllables already existed in the second half of the tenth century. The beginning of the Middle English period, then, must be put at A. D. 1000 or thereabouts.]

[This article treats briefly, in the chronology of their appearance, the substantive uses of the pronoun of the third person neuter: the English and American game usage, two American colloquial or dialectal usages, and the newest usage, emerging from Hollywood, with its adjectival and nominal derivatives.]

[A commentary on some expedients to mark emphasis of qualities and activities, with some detailed discussion of certain constructions used for this purpose: (a) some functions of the superlative and the comparative, (b) a combination of two nouns connected by of, (c) an adjunct consisting of of + plural noun, (d) the idiom instanced by of the earth earthy.]

[Sinclair Lewis is generally looked upon as the representative American novelist of this generation. His popularity is partly due to his censorious attitude toward American conditions. If for no other reasons, German translators of his works ought to take more care in rendering his ideas than hitherto. Four of his novels in the translations of three different interpreters give a distorted picture of American life and manners.]