cabeça está coberta com um chapéu, 'the head is covered with a hat'. it would seem that the following rule might be proposed: With the past participle used as an adjective, either ser or estar is used according as a characteristic or an accidental quality or condition is predicated. This distinction is particulary notable because in Spanish, with the past participle used as an adjective, estar is always required, as sein is in German. Unfortunately, this book, one of the best foreign language grammars ever written in English, cannot be purchased. Only one thousand copies were printed, to be distributed to libraries, etc. Many students and teachers have expressed a sincere eagerness to possess a copy and it is earnestly hoped that the Hispanic Society can arrange for the publication of another edition for sale. EDWIN B. WILLIAMS The Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz, under the editorship of K. Jaberg and J. Jud, is announced by the publishing house of Ringier, in Zofingen (Switzerland); the first volume should appear by the time of this notice. The enterprise extends the linguistic knowledge of the Romanic territory after the fashion of Gilliéron's Atlas linguistique de la France and the similar Atlas for the Catalan area by Griéra. The material has been gathered from four hundred localities in the Italian and Rhaetian speaking territory, by P. Scheuermeier, G. Rohlfs, and M. L. Wagner, and has been arranged in cartographic form by the editors. The undertaking was made possible only by subventions of about 100,000 Swiss francs from institutions and individuals. With the first volume will appear also an introductory volume; and after 1928 one volume will appear annually until the entire eight volumes have appeared. Each volume will contain about four hundred charts showing the terms used locally for the same number of objects or ideas. The time for advance subscription has now passed, and the regular rates are in force: from 220 to 245 Swiss francs per volume, according to whether bound or in portfolio, and whether printed on one or both sides of the charts, and 15 francs for the introductory volume. The work is monumental and fundamental for scientific study and research in its field. A more adequate account, by the editors of the Atlas, is to be found in the Romanic Review 14. 249-64 (1923). NOTES AND PERSONALIA THE SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS was held at Oxford, England, in the week of August 27, 1928, the first such Congress since that at Athens in 1912. One of the delegates of the Linguistic Society, Dr. A. R. Nykl, sends in a report from which the following account is taken. The Congress had over 700 members, including 215 delegates representing the governments, universities, academies, and learned societies. of Abyssinia, Austria, Belgium, the British Empire, China, CzechoSlovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Latvia, Norway, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, the United States of America, the Vatican. Among the delegates from the United States who were present at the various meetings were Professors W. F. Albright, H. H. Bender, W. N. Brown, A. V. W. Jackson, A. R. Nykl. Professors Bender, Brown and Nykl officially represented the Linguistic Society of America as delegates, and Professor Brown conveyed the greetings of the Society to the Congress. The Congress was inaugurated on August 27 by Lord Chalmers, and sessions were held on the next four days for the presentations of papers, in nine sections comprising the entire Oriental field. The hope was expressed that the regular triennial meetings could in future be held without interruption, and the invitation of the Government of Holland to hold the Eighteenth Congress at Leyden was accepted. THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF INDIA was formally organized during the sessions of the Fifth All-India Oriental Congress, held at Lahore, November 19 to 22, 1928. The purposes of the Society are primarily two: first, the study of the languages of India, ancient and modern, including the recording and study of hitherto unstudied dialects; second, the modernization of the teaching of languages in India. The Society plans to publish a bimonthly bulletin consisting of notes, queries, and reviews; it will publish also occasional monographs containing results of research considered to be of permanent value. Among the founders are A. C. Woolner, Vice-Chancellor of the Panjab University; S. K. Chatterjee; Siddheśvar Varma; J. S. Taraporewala. Professor W. N. Brown, of the University of Pennsylvania, conveyed the greetings of the Linguistic Society of America to the new Society. A CONFERENCE ON CHINESE STUDIES was held in New York on December 1 under the auspicies of the American Council of Learned Societies. About forty scholars were in attendance, including nearly all Sinologists of prominence in the United States. Among them were the following members of the Linguistic Society: Prof. G. H. Danton of Oberlin College, who had taken a large part in preparing for the work of the conference, Dr. Berthold Laufer of the Field Museum, Chicago, and Prof. E. H. Sturtevant, Director of the Linguistic Institute. The meeting was very successful, and it is a pleasure to note that arrangements were made for a continuation of its work. Fuller details may be found in Bulletin No. 9 of the Council of Learned Societies. THE PREMIER CONGRÈS DES PHILOLOGUES SLAVES will be held in Prague, October 6 to 13, 1929, in commemoration of the centenary of the death of Joseph Dobrovský, the great pioneer in Slavonic philology, who was located in Prague for about twenty-five years before his death. The communications may be concerned with any phase of Slavonic language and literature, with the teaching of Slavonic languages, and especially with the influence of Dobrovský in the development of philological-historical studies in the different Slavonic countries. Professor M. Murko is President of the Committee of Organization, and Professor Jiří Horák is the Secretary. Inquiries should be addressed in care of the Slovanský Seminář, Břehova 5, Prague V. Czecho-Slovakia. UNDER THE JOINT AUSPICES of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Washington, and the Committee on Research in American Indian Languages, the following field researches were pursued in 1928: by Dr. Thelma Adamson, Associate in Anthropology at the University of Washington, a trip to secure data on the dialect of Salish formerly spoken along the Nootsak River of Northwestern Washington; by Dr. Melville Jacobs, Associate in Anthropology at the same University, a trip for the study of Santian Kalapuya, and another for studies of Yonkalla Salapuya and Molale, dialects of Western Oregon. The principal object of these studies was to secure grammatical material. When possible, connected speech in the form of mythological and ethnological dictations also was secured. IN HONOR OF HENRY ALFRED TODD, a Signer of the Call and a Foundation Member of the LINGUISTIC SOCIETY, there will be published by the Columbia University Press in 1929 two volumes entitled The Todd Memorial Volumes. Of the forty articles in them the following should be of particular interest to linguists: Franz Boas, Spanish Elements in Modern Nahuatl. Georges Cirot, Nouvelles observations sur 'Ser' et 'Estar'. Louis H. Gray, Indo-European Linguistics as an Aid to Romance Etymology. Max A. Luria, Judeo-Spanish Dialects of New York City. Henry F. Muller, Concerning the Origin of Some Dialectal Features of the Romance Languages. G. O. Russell, Universal Symbols of Speech Research. Dorothy Turville, Italian Feminine Singular Nouns Derived from Latin Neuter Plurals. OF THE PAPERS READ AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING, Some have not been prepared for publication, others are under consideration by the editors of journals, and an unusual number are being held for incorporation in larger works. The following have appeared in print, or are about to be issued: S. E. Bassett, 'Through a Glass Darkly', I Corinthians 13, 12; in Journal of Biblical Literature, 67. parts 3 and 4. G. M. Bolling, πaрaiтet̃σ0αι= ålereïv?; in Classical Quarterly 22. 101-6. G. M. Bolling, The New Ptolemaic Papyrus Containing Parts of Iliad H. J. Leon, The Language of the Inscriptions from the Jewish Catacombs of Rome; in Transactions of the American Philogical Association 58. 210-33. C. M. Lotspiech, Sound Symbolism; shortly to appear in Journal of English and German Philology. T. Michelson, Walleser on the Home of Pali; in LANGUAGE 4. 101-5. W. Petersen, The Latin vi-Perfect; in LANGUAGE 4. 191–9. W. Petersen, The Growth of the Greek K-Perfect; in LANGUAGE 4. 267-76. E. Sapir, A Study in Phonetic Symbolism; in American Journal of Experimental Psychology. E. H. Sturtevant, Initial sp and st in Hittite; in LANGUAGE 4. 1-6. E. H. Sturtevant, A Hittite Tablet in the Babylonian Collection at Yale; in TAPA 58. 5-31. FRANK OTIS REED, a member of the Linguistic Society, died at Tucson, Arizona, on December 8, 1928. He was born on July 20, 1876, at Orange, Mass., and received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College in 1899. He pursued graduate studies at Paris, Madrid, and Halle, as well as in this country, and won the degree of M.A. in 1904 and of Ph.D. in 1906, both at Harvard University. His first teaching was at Amherst College, in 1899; he was afterwards for a number of years at the University of Wisconsin, from which he went to the University of Arizona as Professor of Spanish, which position he held until his death. He became a member of the Linguistic Society in 1926, but resigned at the end of the year. Invited to participate in the Linguistic Institute of 1928, he accepted, and offered courses in Spanish and Portuguese. His interest in the Institute was very marked, and he reassumed membership in the Linguistic Society. He was planning to attend the meeting of the Linguistic Society in New York, in Christmas week of last year, when he was suddenly stricken with the influenza and died on December 8. Those who were associated with him at the Linguistic Institute will deeply regret the loss of his genial and enthusiastic personality. DR. C. G. LOWE, Associate Professor of Classical Languages in the University of Nebraska, has been appointed permanent Chairman of the Department, with the rank of full Professor. W. W. PERKINS is this year Acting Assistant Professor of French at Butler University, Indianapolis. DR. A. G. SOLALINDE of the University of Wisconsin spent the first semester of the current academic year at the University of Texas, giving |