New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-19

both the American and the English editions, put
ting the references to the latter immediately AFTER
references" TO the former. The edition Of Muller
Lectures" is the sixth, London, 1871. This double
reference is the more necessary as the American
publishers though changing the references 80 far rs
to adapt them to their own reprint OF 1.-The Chips"
have omitted to make a similar adaptation to their
edition of MHllers Lectures" They have indeed
made one change which could have been
spared since now the readers of the re-
printed Chips" will not discover that their author,
with real affected ignorance, describes Professor
Whitney as least four times as the " Udrrdrd Pro-
fessor" in which he is followed by several English
papers. Wherever Tie word Yale occurs in TIC re-
print it stands for Harrdrd in the original.
The article presents embarrassing variety OF
vulnerable points. All that s attempted here is by
a series of excerpts accompanied with necessary cx-
plantations to furnish some examples that shall en-
able the reader to Judge for himself of Professor
Millors fairness and accuracy, writing as he av0w-
edly is for readers whose studies are in entirely DIFF
ferent departments from his own, and who Will
naturally concede great authority to his statements
of fact and doctrine.
The first example will furnish a clew TO the char
acter of the entire article.
Professor Whitney says C'Contemporary Review"
page 729) in relation to his criticism of Stein
thai, that there were any personalities III
it utterly deny; it was an argument
throughout, if pocmical one; 1t addressed
itself only to the opinions it opposed, and the
considerations by which these were supported
Upon TINS Miller thus ventures to comment tp. sos
l522D "He declares in so many words that he
was aerer personal" quoting as his authority the fol-
lowing words from The Dedsche Rpndschaa Up. 27G'.
chbesIeife ducbaas dss ch ohyih i'm ge';ngs'ea
persGnlicl war." We add the next sentence to show
the exact context of the quotaton at was through
out nothing but strictly scientific, although
polemical argumeut;' ('s car duchaw Har enc
s'ycag cSsepschqfHche, arch poeaiScho EeTe's-
Gih,una") This perveision of Professor Whitney's
meaning is subsequently repeated at least four
tunes up. 507, 513, 514, 5l7; Eng. Ed.
52J. 531. 533. 53I, till at last it is described rs
1.-THE whining and whimpering assurance
made hy the American professor that he never IN
Lis lce said anything personal OF Ononsive!"
Professor htney had charged Miller (Contemp.
Rev. p 72G With emitting essential parts of an i'm
portant quotation and thus atiribuiing to him
doctrine precisely contrary to what lac seeking
to maintain. Tie PASSAGE in question up. BE.
Whtney's Lectures on Language is: " 30 far a.
concerns the Purposes f0r chch he NE linguistic student
Examines hcp Ga9 he rcspls he ,rodd dcrrc from tbcn
they arc almost as little the work or man "a is the
form Of his skull" Ia quoting this passage IN h''
Reply to NJ. Darwin" Up. 42J tl1il Miller had
omitted the italicized words, he has again
done in this article tp. 7G IiolD. lie attempts +"
parry Professor Whitney, charge thus tp.17S ll9Gl-
Without naming book or page, he takes from tie
RpndschW Up. 27}) passage IN which, Pro'. Whit
uey. quoting from the rccen. German version lp. ~
of his Lectures on Language" Translated by Dr.
j. Jolly OF the University Of Nirzhure, has given
the following trdns'at on OF the italici,od words,
viz GogenfJcr den /,reca dis tier SBydcb orcterl
Del oe;acn T., ersrctgea rcolg' addeg Resulia ca die
or ~ eeictcn HON. These Mailer then retransiaca:
as opposed 10 the objects which lac the linrust fol-
lows in hs reseqrchc. and the results which lac wishes
TO attain :" and ihen pointing on and ta icsing The
discrepancy between this Instrumentation and the En-
gsh original, makes this audacIcns statement;
"There was no parblng on my part, but something
worse than earbing on bis
Again, in endeaVorng t. show though with no
specific references exc pt what we quote that FRO
fessor Whlney's Lectures hal closely followed his
own, he says tp. 873 ti2ll) II perceived nch ac-
,dental "reminiscences as OH i1pssidp tearing hctiTd
brief cq'echiya lp. ol5) and CN prpssioW tearing
behind an Cd ,aiocbim ~. 227; Frisaa LariH0 Il
ernfare pitts orn H. 2lll and the Tristan, harnJ q
literature Of their ocu ~. 2o37 The actual prascol-
ogv of each writer IS THE old Pruesan
has cen extinct for 900 years. crowded ont ~ eX
istence by the IOw-German, and leaving behind. -
its only monument, brief catcchism." Wait.cy,
D. 2l5.l THE Old Prssian became extinct
in the seventeenth century and the entire literature
which il has left behind consists in an old
catechisin." c'uller, p. 900 I227l) "Ihe
ancient Tristan which hal, il Me four
tceah century and later, literature Of IFS own,
Of ja,idicql content" whitney, p. 2l1l "The Fri
sian had literature Of It's own rs early nj least
the frelnh century il not earlier" MILLER. y. ~
I2O3l Miller here compels attention 10 the greater
trustworthiness Of Professor Whitney, work for
in regard to the antiquity of the earliest Tristan
monuments, Professor Whitney seems clearly right
and Miller wrong. Wide Keynes "Lautu-f leSions
lehrer D. . IIadley's "Bif History" &c, 91i,aud
Helfenstein's Comparative Grammar" j. - Mill
Ter has repeated bis error Up. 80 lj3l. "The Fri
sian - possesses literary documents as old AZ
the twelfth century"
Again, Miller says p. Ala H91D: In order to
show for instance, in what sense Chinese may bc
called pcrler cnfaRfin, had said If child says
up that APP is TO his mind noun, verb adjective, all
in one Ii means | want 10 get up my mothers
lap' What has Professor Whitney 10 say the same
subcifr THE italics are ours.) at is thus that
at present children begin 70 talk; radical word or
two means in their mouths a whole sentence; up
signifies take me up into your lap" No reference
whatever is given 20 either passage. After tedors
search we find MHcrs words y. SO l91l Of bis
Second Series where he is. hc says, illustrating
Chinese roots Professor Whitney's words occur on
D. 2s5 where he Is defending, against " Renan, the
doctriueofap primitive ndo-EuropcaD mono llab-ln
The illustration though used ia different connec-
tons. NAV seem 70 have been borrowed from Miller,
and Professor Whitney pref p. viii makes general
acknowledgment to him for an occasional ilnstra-
ton The readers attention is particularly invited
to the page from which we have just quoted