21 APRIL 1877, Page 26

On the Genders of French Substan'ives. By Benjamin Dawson, B.A.,

and Danby P. Fry, is an enlargement of papers road by the former author before the Philological Society. The book is intended to show how the gender of French substantives has been determined by the gender of their Latin equivalents, and to ascertain how far the general principles established by custom have operated. These re- searches evince on the part of the author a great amount of patient study and a thorough knowledge of both French and Latin. The in- genious way in which French and Latin words are put aide by side in

parallel columns, and their derivation shown at one glance, prove serviceable in many ways in the bands of a skilful teacher, but will be of advantage only to earnest and already advanced students.