25 MAY 1895, Page 23

—Mr. Valentine occupied for three years the position of a

Professor in Randolph Macon College, Virginia. He devoted his youth and early manhood to the study of philology, and on resigning his post in 1871, gave up the rest of his life to it. He died in 1885, and some five years ago Mr. Keane undertook the task of preparing for the press this manuscript treatise en the German language, a work which practically represents the labour of his life. As it stands, it is but a part of what the author cone templated, which, indeed, was nothing less than a treatise on Aryan philology. It appears with some additions and supplements from Mr. Keane's hands.