First Published in 2000. This is Volume II of three of a series on Africa, written in 1883 it is the second instalment of a sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa. It which covers the Bantu family, the Hottentot-Bushman group and offers bibliographical tables of languages, dialects, localities and authorities.

This volume I of three on series on Africa. It is part one and a look is a look at the old, extinct and mixed languages of Africa and was originally published in 1883.