William Churchill's essay on roots in Polynesian language, challenging the Euro-centric scholarship of traditional linguistics.

Tenney Frank's review and discussion of the uses of the optative in the Edda sagas of Iceland.

David Robinson, excavator of Olynthos, here gives an account of the site and history of Sinope, a trading city on the Black Sea.

R. B. Steele classifies Livy's use of the gerund and gerundive in his history of Rome, providing insight into the regular useage of this rather irregular feature of Latin grammar.

H. C. Nutting's exploration of the use and structure of conditional sentences in Cicero's prose provides a clear discussion of this key feature of Latin syntax.

Sir Peterson's analysis of the manuscript tradition for the Verrine orations, with particular attention given towards removing word-order errors made by copyists.

This is Basil Gildersleeves review and guide to Stahl's syntax of the Greek verb, an important work of German philological scholarship.

Wilfred Mustard finds references to Vergil's Georgics in a variety of English authors from the 15th to the 19th century.

Truman Michelson explores the spelling variants among copies of the Edicts of Ashoka, a legal document in Sanskrit.

Prof. Perrin uses Aristotle's Poetics to classify and analyze the various sorts of recognition scenes found in surviving Greek literature.