16mo green printed cover and spine (slightly marked) 216pp name Mary Welch 1896 to top margin of title. Endpapers with list of books in Sullivans' series. Endpapers darkened, a few corner crases and 2 tears without loss to a lower margin. *A way of simplifying the complexities added by generations of grammarians. There is an interesting section on the History of the English Language and its Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Danish and German origins and its accretions from Latin, Greek, French etc sources. There are also some speciments of Semi-saxon from the reign of Stephen, early English and middle English extracts.