TY - BOOK ID - 133755471 TI - Chips from a German Workshop. : Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language PY - 2009 PB - [Place of publication not identified] : Project Gutenberg, DB - UniCat KW - Folklore. KW - Literature KW - Religions. KW - Comparative linguistics. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133755471 AB - Excerpt from Chips From a German Workshop<br/><br/>England possesses some of the best, if not the best, of Persian scholars (alas! He who was here in my mind, Lord Strangford, is no longer among us), yet there is no chair for Persian at Oxford or Cambridge, in spite of the charms of its modern literature, and the vast importance of the ancient language of Per sia and Bactria, the Zend, a language full of interest, not only to the comparative philologist, but also to the student of Comparative Theology. ER -