Jmn, W">._ BOOK Ncyncss.
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lift— tUo Pr&kfito, aa well as Sojiekrti— are alj ■yntuatical. The modern Aryan tongue* are all analytical. Wo bare not sufficient niatcrtuli to show how the modern were developed una of the ancit • Whether you traco the ■ touguee down, or the modi' i ml you are equally unabU bo dftcOTor u continuous stream of language. Sanskrit, of eourso, ta 1 at an early period j yet ir too HuddhwU and Jamas had been Cdthnii to their original idem of using a language " iiudenrlandcd af the people," tho ir books would have revealed the progress ortho popular speech ; but unhappily a Jaunt work ha Glib or sixth century is writt."i in the language of the fires or second. Then if* you proceed up tho stream, yoa can go no higher, oven in the com of Hindi, than the date of Cbund ILinlfii.— that is to »ay, the i. u century. But the language offhand it in structure ana- W« arc thus compelled to have recourse to analogy in am o explain how 1 1 passed into the modern tongue*. Tin- K -nuance languages of Europe are related to Latin nearly
- » the Indian rernoeulara are to Sanskrit. Mr.
Beamea elates this corrcjpandanr* very strong' «.a holds that, in the whale extent of lingui*. tia science i here exists uo mora remarkable simi- larity than between the dewlopmoal of Provencal. Italia in French, Spanish, and Pod Latin, and that of Hindi, Buglll. g ami the rest out or Sanskrit, -lord:. occurring in thu Romance languages are derivatives of " tow Latin/" that la, of thu vulgar, as diatiu* guisbed from literary and refined speech; for example e^utv, u Aersc, line no descendant of the same sign! faBa being all derived from the peasontM^U'ri 1 1 U i* reasonable to lielievc I hat the tutus thing occurred in India. The words of " tome vaaUi" •r»- words of wbieh wc may find no trace either in Sanskrit or Prakrit writings. Still they may have been fimmou in llui intiutliM of the middle and lower duos** in early times, and thoroughly goud Aryan terms. Ih'fiiro their Aryan parentage i* denied m» miiRt search tor them through all til '■• of Iudu-Germanki ipovln VV< muwt not rush to Iho inference that tWa/a terms were bur* rawed from the aitorigtnoB. So tnimli for til" riiiiH«itiii;tlt t lemon w ol vernaculars. Now as to IbJlratmrii. It ha* been usual to describe the breaking down of too f ufleo- tiunal syntcm that ruled in .Suuskrit us the effect rf contact with the aboriginal races. Mr. Bennies emphatically rejects this view, V no aboriginal influuuee to explain a development which is natural. Thu flower of ftynOietio grew analytic structure, both in Boropq and iu India. !■ ,, y bars been an inli from without accelerating the changes. Certainly the presence of Toutonin nud Celtic racu, that could not or would not aeuaira thu i!losn£n»l In tiaus, hastened thu dodtruation of the ancient i •irnu ui BuropOi and the prewnix" of nou-Arvniii in India, eutaring more or lesi into eonneotion with the Aryans, must have exerted an influence or ibo twunc kind, whatever ii» ojilcat may have been, Mr. Beames flghis against the Ifl with all the Tahiunetioe of an old Arya warrior, or of* tho mighty India himDelf. But KTs seal corriea bim too far. For example, he complain k t ildwell " has gone quite wild " <>n tho roseiublance between tho sign of she dative in Tamil [ka) to that In Hindi {fa*)j anil he nauin- tains there is ui>t '* the slightest raanon ,r for tracing boa lutfcer to any but ntt Arjnn aource. Pbs utit; tmt a - argument r In old Hindi fe» is ioait, which is the regular form of tho Sanskrit ham, tho arcuitatif-* «.f words in kah. But is then* no difficulty in seeing how the accusative f.mn of the few wordi that end in hth can be transferred to all tho words in the language f Dr. C*W may perhaps ha wrong; but wo oannut admit that Mr. Bcnmes in right. We httvo in this rolume evitlcnco of careful and trnth-Ionng investigation of facts. At thi« aino time Mr. U-aanie* seldom comox across a striking Diet without trj-bg to account fin-it, We irnexses at truth had Urn left out. though wa may to think ho guesses wrong. a speaking of tho differ- ence between the Muri^i! of the Oaklian and that of the Konkan. w* are informed correctly thu: ha* more ol a naAal sound fat I to *, in many casea. !n thia it resemble* HangoJ!} and - in both cases, proximity to thr »c»> and tho low swampy nature of the country. may linv© bod a tendency to deliajK) and Lhiukeu tha pronunciation*** It is ait interesting inquiry j the etfcvt of climate on pr^nunaiatiun well, dc- aervt- Hut wc are unable to accept tho etplaOaUon oflun-d. We do not think tlun tba jirinuinciuUuu m the Konkan is thiirkem tlebasMl. il I with that <A the Uakhau. r nasal suuudi*.— thi-y abound hx French and are rare in Ttnlbu: and we have boon iu the habit or nscrihiug th [n the foi io the Celtic* which waa the oldep-.rrli of Oaul. In ■»! : lie sea has an mtlannee, Italian ought to 1. wi than French, ho » and t. 'I'mka the famous in*t IA; end the explanatinn faila 5a docs it, i> ;hrr
