New-York tribune., 1874-07-18
THE PHILOLOGISTS.

SESSIONS HUPlRYING TO A CLOSE.
MEETINGS or THE ASSOCIATION DEFICIENT u Inn M
ELEMENTS OF PoPULARITY-AN oNsLA'''i ~. %,
LATIN GRA'ZNARs-XENoPHoN foUIh of -
AT THE TTdg OF THE ANABAsis-AN Anal $40 vi
rHE FLOW OF SPEECH
tyRoN THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBVNh'l
HARTFORD. July 16.-Alternate sun ana
shaver have marked day and the uncertain weather
,insbea tine assemblage at the meetings. especially
An the afternoon. Tue philoogists are busy people.
-rheir sessions are long and almost continuous be-
ginning at 9 in the morning and closing after
10 o. ~ But even out OF the short inter
walls allowed for dinner aud supper they sub
trscted hour to-day ana added 1t 20 the reading OF
papers Few ladies attend the sessions in the morning
and scarcely any In the afternoon and their absence
and the want such recreation is usually afforded
60 the meetings Of national bodies by excursions aud
entertainments combined with the rather aosiruse sun
ects presented, all tend make the meetings oi the
philologists uuattractive 20 the outside world
But TO those who have made the study Of languages
speciality there is Of in these meetings
There close attention given to the addresses when
is rarely eQuaed anywhere except in religious
asse nbhes Each speaker receives round
Of appreciative applause at tne 'oHc'u-
sion Of his paper, and the debates that
follow are usually spirited Some OF the speakers too'
arc men OF energy Prof Fischer for instance who mas
the reputation Of having utterly demolished a cee-
the Latin grammars to-day with tremendous vlgor.
whether II the reverberating syilabes OF Roman
lore that rolled of his fluent tongue, strong English
vailed in a marked German accent, he was equally
forcb not 10 say in his utterances Many Of
the papers read rapidly that II was dfcuit 10
follow them. and many abbreviated IN denvery.
The following subjects presented:
The Formation OF lenses for Completed Action IN the
Lain Finite Verb. by Prof Albert Harkness " Brown
University. The Present Condition OF Latin Grammar,
by Prof Gustavus Fischer oi New Bruuswlck me LAIe
oi Aeu0phOn az the Period of the AnaDasls, Dy NJ =.
Morris of Peeksklu, y y Troy ana Or. Scnleniihu :
Discoveries Prof J. NJ Van BenschOtOn Of Wesleyan
aud certain differences thereupOu, 10y Prof. W. D. n
ney OF Yale College The Ejruscan inscriptions ana the
Keep OF Hartford, Conu Names for Heart, Liver, ana
Lungs by Or. J. Hammond Irumbull OF Hartford conn
HclveueIsms u Scnlllers Tell, by PrOI. e. r comfort
OF syracuse University.
The paper Of Prof. Hardness undertook 10 give
theory OF the formation Of the Latin IN the
tense which not compounded with parucipies
The examinations ui and regarded derived
from fll those I'D y from esi He considered fu and
esl having the same meaning at the time o. tlls
derivation. The rest Of the Development took place 10y
reupncaOn, and by TINS means he accounted Tor the
form OF the second and tnrd persons singular and al
the plural forms. He thus derived all these teImlna-
fTOm early roofs IN as ana f which lie compared
causkrlt The paper ellcted CRITICISM from
Irof~ Whitney ana Comfort dld gard It's de-
auctions entire favor; ana Prof. AlOnZO Williams
OF Brown University entered protest against the
tendency 10 derive every verbal injection IlOm tle
Tle papers on Dr scbiemann's discoveries added
interest what has already been given 10
TRBl ~ readers m the letters OF BAY aru Taylor 1Ae
paper Inscriptions review and cTltl
csm -searChes by the Rev. Isaac Taylor,
uufavOraDle 20 the theories assumed n tha Work it
TIE Etruseaus from Turaula, were o. Scythau
ancestry The WORK wac. however. commenced "A
bOOA Ol reference Uu E,ruscan su1jrcts.