" PHILOLOGICA."
LEARNED societies—except in America—have been so terribly hard hit by the heavy increase hi the cost of printing that it seemed for a time as if they would have to suspend their activities and wait for happier days. We are glad, therefore, to find that the Philological Society, an old and valuable institution, has devised means of overcoming the difficulty and has started a new periodical, Philologica, in which to publish the contribu- tions of its members. Philologica is edited jointly by Dr. Baudis, who holds a chair at Prague University, and Mr. L. C. Wharton, and it is printed—with, great care and taste—in Prague. The low exchange with Czecho-Slovakia thus benefits philological science here and elsewhere. The journal appeals, of course, only to scholars. Mr. Alan H. Gardiner leads off with a paper on " The Relative Form in Egyptian in the Light of Comparative Syntax," M. Meillet writes on certain forms of the Latin perfect tense, Dr. Baudis contributes " Remarks on the Welsh Verb," Mr. H. J. Rose deals with " Logical and Rhetorical Emphasis in the Ciceronian Sentence," and other writers treat of Arabic, Nepali, Lydian, and the early language of the Italian Alpine valleys known as Lepontian. The journal may be purchased separately for ten shillings, but is issued to the members of the Philological Society, who subscribe a guinea a year. The honorary secretary of the society is Mr. L. C. Wharton, at 31 Greville Road, N.W. 6.
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