Frontmatter -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PAGAN ANTIQUITY -- CHRISTIANITY. THE MIDDLE AGES -- THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES -- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- I. THE ANCIENT LITERARY LANGUAGES OF INDIA AND IRAN BECOME KNOWN -- INDIAN -- IRANIAN -- II. THE GREAT LINGUISTIC GROUPS OF MODERN EUROPE: GERMANIC, SLAVONIC, CELTIC -- GERMANIC -- SLAVONIC -- CELTIC -- III. LITHUANIAN, ALBANIAN, ARMENIAN -- LITHUANIAN -- ALBANIAN -- ARMENIAN -- IV. THE CONTINUED STUDY OF THE CLASSICAL LANGUAGES -- CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY -- GREEK -- LATIN -- V. THE STUDY OF NON-INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILIES OF LANGUAGES -- THE FOREIGN FAMILIES SURROUNDING EUROPE -- THE NON-INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILIES SURROUNDING INDIA -- THE MORE DISTANT NON-INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILIES -- VI. INSCRIPTIONS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF WRITING -- THE LANGUAGES OF THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS -- THE LANDS OF THE HIEROGLYPHS -- THE SEMITIC ALPHABET -- THE MORE DISTANT OFFSHOOTS OF THE SEMITIC ALPHABET -- THE COUNTRIES OF THE GREEK ALPHABET -- Greek Discoveries -- The Greek Alphabet among Foreign Peoples -- Offshoots of the Latin Alphabet -- VII. THE METHODS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS -- A SURVEY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT -- The Older Period of Comparative Linguistics -- The New Period of Comparative Linguistics -- VIII. LINGUISTIC AFFINITIES OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS, HOME, AND CIVILIZATION -- INDICES -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF WORDS