Works
In 1841 Latham produced a well-known text-book, The English Language. He devoted himself to a thorough revision of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, which he completed in 1870. He subsequently spent much time on a Dissertation on the Hamlet of Saxo Grammaticus and of Shakespeare. His works on the English language passed through many editions, and were regarded as authoritative till they were superseded by those of Richard Morris and Walter William Skeat.
Other works included:
- An Elementary English Grammar for the Use of Schools, 1843
- The Natural History of the Varieties of Mankind, 1850
- The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies, 1851
- Man and his Migrations, 1851
- The Ethnology of Europe, 1853
- The Native Races of the Russian Empire, 1854
- Logic in its Application to Language, 1856
- Descriptive Ethnology, 1858
- Opuscula: Essays Chiefly Philological and Ethnographical, 1860
- Circle of the Sciences: A series of Treatises on the Principles of Science, with their Application to Practical Pursuits, 1860
- A Smaller English Grammar for the Use of Schools, 1861
- The Channel Islands, 1862.
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