Wright William. Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages

Cambridge University Press, 1890. — 299 p.The Lectures printed in this volume were composed
and delivered for the instruction of students in the
University of Cambridge, and with special reference to
the Examination for the Semitic Languages Tripos.
It appears from the Cambridge University Reporter
that Professor Wright began "a short course or"elementary
lectures" on the Comparative Grammar of Hebrew,
Syriac and Arabic in the Easter Term of 1877, and he
continued to lecture on the subject at intervals till he was
withdrawn from work by his last illness. The manuscript
from which this volume is printed represents the
form which the Lectures ultimately a.c;sumed, after they
had passed through repeated and sedulous revision.
They were never redelivered without being retouched,
and in parts rewritten; and the whole manuscript, except
a few pages at the end, was so carefully prepared as to
be practically ready to go to press. It was Professor
Wright's intention that the lectures should one day be
printed, and during his last illness he often spoke of
this intention in such a way as to make it clear that he
meant to publish them without any substantial modification
or addition.