A Kanarese grammar, with graduated exercises. Revised by W. Perston

Mysore City: Wesley Press, 1950. — xii + 352 p.The revision of `Spencer's Grammar' was undertaken some years ago at the request of the Rev. H. H. Newham, at that time General Superintendent of the Methodist Missionary Society in Mysore State, the Mission Press having published the original edition, as also its predecessor, the `Elementary Grammar' of the Rev. Thomas Hodson (1859). The work could not be taken up at once and has had to be done in oddments of time. When it was decided to make a revision, it was agreed to make it fairly thorough that it might reflect, to some extent at least, the changes which have taken place in written and spoken Kanarese as a result of the notable literary renascence of the period since this grammar was written.