with it satisfactorily in a brief treatise, as volumes might be written upon it; indeed, it would require a large volume to deal comprehen¬ sively with a single Micmac verb. Bishop Baraga in his Otchipwe Grammar devotes twenty-eight pages to paradigms of the verb (nind) ikkit, I say ; remarking that many of the participles have no corres¬ ponding form in English, it being necessary to use instead relative pronouns with roundabout phrases. Dr. Rand never erased a state¬ ment to the effect that there are no participles in Micmac; to him they seemed all adjectives, when he began the study of the language; though he copied without comment a contrary statement from Irwin, whose Outlines of Micmac Grammar was published in the Prince Edward Island Royal Gazette , and is supposed to be based upon original work done by the abbe Legoyne, of Claire , N. S. In it verbs are designated thus:—Active, Passive, Middle or Reflexive, Intermediate or Inter¬ locutory, Impersonal or Unipersonal, Substantival, Trans-substantival, Adjectival, Mental and Neuter—a comprehensive classification, though he omits to mention the generally accepted divisions under Transi¬ tive and Intransitive, which end in oo and adega. Active Verbs consist of four groups :—[a] Common", with nom¬ inatives of the animate gender, and accusatives either animate or in¬ animate. Dr. Rand calls these the fundamental verbs, as the others are derived from them ; the termination is a or adega as in kesalooa, I love, and nemedega I see. [b] Relative Active,—are, firstly those whose nominatives are animate and accusatives are inanimate, of which there are two conjugations, one ending in um as nestum, I understand it, and one ending in oo as nemadoo, I see it; Relative Active verbs are, secondly, those whose nominatives and accusatives are both of the animate gender, as nestool, I understand thee, nemool I see thee, nemak, I see him, and nemijik, I see them, (c) Active Verbs governing two cases,—the subject being animate, the direct object inanimate, and the indirect object either animate or inanimate or both, as nemedool, I see it of yours, nemal, I see (the point) of it. (d) Active Verbs having the nominative inanimate and the accusa¬ tive animate, as nemek, it sees me; kesenoogwik, it strikes me. Passive Verbs (or rather the passive voice of verbs) are marked by