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permit, though inclination is strong. I have, however, taken up 

 wJiat I regard as perhaps the most general characteristic of the epi- 

 deictic style — the play of the participle and the finite verb. To 

 this end I have prepared diagrams showing the curves of the parti- 

 ciple and finite verb for each speech. The representation of 



Participial and finite-verb curves of the 'ETrtrac^tot. 



statistics bv curves is b\' no means new,* but its novelt\' is not 

 entirely lost as applied to language. I am willing to admit that 

 the results obtained are rather more interesting than instructive, or 

 more instructive because of their interest, than interesting because 



*An idea suggested to rue by I'lof. l^odge of Uryii Mawr. 



