Can Giles recommend a modern book on historical development of language in relation to thought?; he is interested in tracing 'gradual growth of the power of abstraction and generalization as attested by the increase in the creation and use of more and more abstract and general terms'; he has only Max Müller's and Sayce's works; Rouse has got Frazer to do Apollodorus, not Herodotus, for Loeb; death of Frazer's stepdaughter in Paris