_Lector in English at Lund University_.
The academical degree of doctor brings with it so many practical
advantages in Sweden that it is widely sought by the more gifted and
ambitious students of Swedish Universities and University Colleges.
The coveted prize is no less difficult than desirable. The essential
condition for its attainment is the publication of an adequate work of
original research, which shall form the coping-stone of the writer’s
academical career. This original treatise cannot be undertaken until the
aspirant has gone through a far more prolonged and systematic course of
academical study than is required at most British Universities; while
in the making, it undergoes much criticism, both formal and informal,
both from the writer’s fellow-students and from the Professor with
whose sanction it is essayed; and, lastly, it is subjected to a severe
final examination on the day when the author publicly defends his work
against the opponents chosen or approved by the appropriate Faculty of
the University. Owing to the severe training and rigid scrutiny exacted,
a large proportion of Swedish doctoral treatises attain a high standard
of thoroughness; they are not mere scholastic exercises, testing and
training the investigator for serious work in the future, but rather
accumulations of valuable material, handled in a manner which is at once
original, careful, systematic, illuminating and interesting.
Svea English Treatises.
Many of these dissertations, properly enough, deal with highly technical
matters in a highly technical manner; and consequently most of them
appeal exclusively to a limited class. In the department of Modern
Languages there has been a marked preference for dealing with the dead
and therefore more stable aspects of those languages; but of late years
would-be doctors who have chosen a scholastic career have shown a
tendency to choose modern subjects of general interest which are likely
to prove directly profitable in their school-work. This tendency is aptly
illustrated in two treatises included in the present Series: of which
Dr. LEEB-LUNDBERG’S deals with one single aspect of the living author
who, whatever may be his ultimate place in English Literature, stands
preeminent to-day in his appeal to all classes and to all nations of the
English-speaking world; while Dr. SERNER’S deals with Mr. Kipling’s chief
master in the art of poetry, who has also been the subject of a recent
dissertation in Swedish by Dr. SVANBERG.
The appended select list of recent dissertations dealing with English
subjects and written in English illustrates the wide range of subjects
handled in such treatises in Sweden. Should the works now issued prove
acceptable to the British public, an endeavour will be made to arrange
for the production in England of similar treatises bearing on English
subjects in such a form that they may be likely to come within the
cognizance not only of special students of Philology but of all persons
interested in English Language and Literature.
Recent Swedish Treatises on English Subjects.
[IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION.]
EKWALL, EILERT. _Shakespere’s Vocabulary in its Etymological Elements._
Part I. [Native Scandinavian and Continental Germanic Elements]. 250 ×
165 mm., pp. xx. + 99. Upsala, 1903.
REINIUS, JOSEF. _On Transferred Appellations of Human Beings, chiefly
in English and German: Studies in Historical Sematology._ (Göteborgs K.
Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetsamhälles skrifter.) 255 × 180 mm., pp. xvi. +
296. Göteborg, 1903.
PALMGREN, CARL. _English Gradation-Nouns in their relation to Strong
Verbs._ 240 × 165 mm., pp. iv. + 92. Upsala, 1904.
SUNDEN, KARL. _Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern
English._ 250 × 165 mm., pp. iv. + 233. Upsala, 1904.
KNUTSON, ARTHUR. _The Gender of Words denoting Living Beings in English
and the Different Ways of Expressing Difference in Sex._ 220 × 145 mm.,
pp. xvi. + 96. Lund, 1905.
KOCH, CARL O. _Contributions to an Historical Study of the Adjectives of
Size in English._ (Göteborgs Högskolas Årskrift.) 250 × 170 mm., pp. xii
+ 164. Göteborg, 1906.
BERGSTRÖM, G. A. _On Blendings of Synonyms or Cognate Expressions in
English: a Contribution to the Study of Contamination._ 240 × 165 mm.,
pp. xvi. + 211. Lund, 1906.
UHRSTRÖM, WILHELM. _Studies on the Language of Samuel Richardson._ 225 ×
145 mm., pp. vii + 180. Upsala, 1907.
BORGSTRÖM, EDVARD. _The Proverbs of Alfred, re-edited from the
Manuscripts, with an Introduction, Notes and Glossary._ 240 × 165 mm.,
pp. xc. + 100. Lund, 1908.
GABRIELSON, ARVID. _Rime as a Criterion of the Pronunciation of Spenser,
Pope, Byron and Swinburne._ 240 × 160 mm., pp. xvi. + 211. Upsala, 1909.
ZACHRISSON, ROBERT. _Anglo-Norman Influence on English Place-Names._ 240
× 165 mm., pp. xv. + 169. Lund, 1909.
_Messrs. W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., of Cambridge, England, having special
connections in Sweden, will be pleased to procure for British purchasers
copies of such of these treatises as are still in print._
Svea English Treatises.
_Price (bound in cloth), 2s. 6d. net. each._
Each Work has a bibliography, list of works consulted, and (usually) an
index.
W. LEEB-LUNDBERG. =Word Formation in Kipling: a Stylistic-Philological
Study.= 210 × 130 mm., pp. viii. + 116. 1909.
_Introduction_: Character and Style; i., Kipling and the
Short Story; ii., Development of Character; iii., General
Characteristics; iv., Vocabulary.
I. _Stylistic Survey_: General stylistic principles; use of
hyphen; mannerisms; formative principles; onomatopes.
II. _Grammatical Survey_: Substantives; adjectives;
parasynthetics; participles; verbs; adverbs; onomatopes.
CARL EFVERGREN. =Names of Places in a Transferred Sense in English: a
Sematological Study.= 235 × 155 mm., pp. xii + 123. 1909.