21 APRIL 1888, Page 23

Verner's Law in Italy. By R. Seymour Conway, B.A. (Triibner

and Co.)—Verner's Law brought certain changes of s to v in the Teutonic languages, which were apparently irregular, to a law. Mr. Conway in this elaborate essay, one of the results of the reformed classical examination at Cambridge, weirs to apply it to Italian dialects. It is far too technical for discussion in these columns, and with this statement of its object we must be content to leave it.