OTTO JESPERSEN, Ph.D.
_Professor of English in the University of Copenhagen_
TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH ORIGINAL BY
SOPHIA YHLEN-OLSEN BERTELSEN M.A.
“This was sometime a paradox, but now the time
gives it proofe.”--_Hamlet._
[Colophon]
LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. LTD
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1904