subtle explanation for deceased warriors being accompanied by their animate utensils and weapons when their spirits set out alone on the perilous journey to IVasoi, the land of the blessed. The Inanimate class of nouns corresponds with our Neuter, and it is worthy of note that a tree while growing is animate, though inanimate as soon as it dies or is cut down, a nice distinction peculiar to but few languages. The animate division of Gender is subdivided into masculine, Feminine and Epicene or Common, which the Abbe Legoyne remark¬ ed is applied to every irrational object of the animate class. We find thus the variety name team, moose, while a male moose is eap, and a female ulgwedoo; ulumoolc is the accepted name for dog, with nabesum and skwesum to distinguish the sexes. The idea of sex is expressed in three ways, (a) by a change of termination which is evidently the root of a separate word, as seen in sakumou; a chief, or lord, and sakumes&w, a chief's wife or lady; (b) by prefixing the words nabe and eskw i ^with modifications for euphony) to the common name for a class, or to a shortened form in¬ dicative of the class, illustrated by the use of nabesum and s/cwesutn, as above instead of nabe — ulumootc. The words nabe and esfrw (modified) are joined to names of birds just as we use 'cock' and 'hen' with sparrow; (c) Gender is expressed thirdly, by different and unrelated words, introduced probably at different times of conquest and amalgamation; giving for example tcenum, a man and abit, a woman; ulbadoo, a boy; and abitas, a girl; netelow, a buck, and lunlooi, a doe; eap, a bull-moose, and ulgwedoo, a cow-moose. Case. There are no fewer than seven Cases marked by inflection; the nominative, dative, accusative and vocative, as in Greek and Latin, and with them the negative, abseutive, and what Dr. Rand calls the terminative, though this last is rather a sentence-ending, as it is attach¬ ed to whatever word occurs at the end of a sentence, as when a bargain has been settled I say aoii, instead of a, in assent; it is marked by the long it, and is like the Greek <xu.Y>V which gives us 'amen,' or the 'selah' of the Hebrew musicians The negative case is quite dis-