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Select List of Whitney's Writings
1885
On Professor Ludwig's views respecting total eclipses of the sun as noticed in the Rig-Veda. Ibid., xiii., pp. lxi-lxvi (for Oct.).
Philology, pt. I.—Science of Language in general. Article in the Encycl. Brit. xviii. 765-780.
⌊Edited: Forty years' record of the class of 1845, Williams College. New Haven, 8°, xvii + 196 pp. Pages 175-182 contain an autobiographical sketch. Although brief, it is of importance because it is trustworthy.⌋
1886
Hindu eschatology and the Kaṭha Upanishad. JAOS. xiii., pp. ciii-cviii, = Proc. for May.
A Practical French Grammar, with exercises and illustrative sentences from French authors. New York, 12°, xiii + 442 pp.
The roots of the Sanskrit language. Trans. APA. for 1885, pp. 5-29.
The Upanishads and their latest translation. AJP. vii. 1-26.
The following articles in Appleton's New American Cyclopædia, 2d ed.: Alphabet, i. 348-351.—Africa, Languages of, i. 171.—Aryan Race and Language, i. 799-802.
1887
The method of phonetic change in language. Proc. APA., pp. 33-35, in Trans. for 1886.
The Veda. Century Magazine, xxxiii. 912-922.
Notes on part IV. of Schröder's edition of the Māitrāyaṇī-Saṁhitā. JAOS. xiii., pp. ccxxvi-ccxxviii, = Proc. for Oct.
1888
On the second volume of Eggeling's translation of the Çatapatha-Brāhmaṇa. Ibid. xiv., pp. vi-xi (for Oct.).
1889
On the and ar-forms of Sanskrit roots. Ibid. xiv., pp. cxlviii-cl (for Oct.).
1890
Böhtlingk's Upanishads. AJP. xi. 407-439.
1891
Translation of the Kaṭha Upanishad. Trans. APA. for 1890, pp. 88-112.
Open letter to the members of the American Oriental Society. Privately printed. New Haven, 8°, 8 pp.
1889-91
The Century Dictionary. An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language. Prepared under the superintendence of William Uwight Whitney, Ph. D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology and Sanskrit in Yale University. Published by The Century Co., New York. In six volumes, royal quarto. Pages xviii + 7046 (= 21,138 columns) + 30.⌋
⌊The preface to the first volume is dated May 1st, 1889. The supplementary note to preface is dated October 1st, 1891. The actual work began, of course, long before the prior date. The "superintendence" of the Lexicon naturally involved very far-reaching thought and planning (p. liii, above) ; but, in addition to this, the proofs of every one of the 21,138 columns were read by Mr. Whitney himself. See The Century Magazine, xxxix. 315.⌋
1892
On Delbrück's Vedic Syntax. AJP. xiii. 271-306.
Max Müller and the science of language: a criticism. New York, 12°, iii + 79 pp.

Mr. Whitney's list closes here. The following titles are added by the editor.

Announcement as to a second volume of the Roth-Whitney edition of the Atharva-Veda. JAOS. xv., pp. clxxi-clxxiii, = Proc. for April.
On the narrative use of imperfect and perfect in the Brāhmaṇas. Trans. APA. for 1892, pp. 5-34.
Review of F. Max Müller's Vedic Hymns, Translated. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 32.) The New World for June, pp. 349-351.
1893
Select list of Whitney's writings. (Essentially the same as that just given: see above, p. lvi.)
The native commentary to the Atharva-Veda. Festgruss an Roth (Stuttgart, Kohlhammer), pp. 89-96.
The Veda in Pāniṇi. Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana, vii. 243-254.