Forbes Nevill. Russian Grammar

Second Edition. — Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1916. — 274 p.The accompanying volume is a practical rather than a scientific grammar. It is intended for the use of those students who are working under a teacher able to explain the difficulties of the language to them, and also for the use of those who are working at the language by themselves with the object of being able to read it; but it does not profess to be an adequate means of teaching any one working alone how to speak Russian. As it is an elementary book, philological references and comparisons and etymological explanations have been avoided, in order not to discourage the beginner. The most important points of the syntax that could be included in a book of this size have been mentioned, not in a part by themselves, but incorporated in the morphology. I wish to thank Dr. Henry Bradley and Mr. Daniel Jones for the help which they have kindly given me with regard to one or two points of detail, particularly in those parts dealing with pronunciation. Syntactical examples have been gathered from the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov, L. Tolstoi, Dostoyevski, and Garshin.