Is the English language degenerating?--What is pure English?--American English and British English.--The vicissitudes of the vocabulary.--The latest novelties in language.--Newspaper English.--The permanent utility of dialect.--A confusion of tongues.--Learning a language.--The advertizer's artful air.--A standard of spoken English.--Style from several angles.--Mark Twain and the art of writing.--One world-language or two?
