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in Shcri flail's^ Walker^s and oilier pronouncing dictionaries. But the 

 plan which he now brings forward is entirely different fioni tliis, and is, 

 we are bound to believe, derived almost entirely from Pitmax's "Phon- 

 ography," to which he refers and of which he gives a very indifferent 

 abstract. Nor can we see that he has either improved Pitman's phono- 

 typic alphabet, or essentially modified it. The same objections, (so far 

 as our recollection of Pitman's printed characters which we have not 

 just now at hand), apply to them both. Some of the most obvious of 

 them are the follo^ving : — 



1. The existing distinction between capitals and small letters, which 

 we icgard as unnecessary, is retained. 



2. New characters are introduced to represent sounds to whicli well 

 known characters have been appropriated in nearly all European lan- 

 guages, such as the sounds of I, U, O, which have been perverted from 

 their long established usage. So too J, is converted into an aspirated 

 Z, as in azure. 



3. The best characters have sometimes been unaccountably over- 

 looked, as in the case of the Anglo-Saxon \ . and which niiglil .so natural- 

 ly have been employed to express the sound ol' Ih in lldn., the Greek •>, 

 being used to represent the sound of /// in that. 



Notwithstanding these and some other objections that we might 

 state, we regard Mr. Pitman's as essentially fulfilling all the cundilion.s 

 of a good phonographic alphabet. 



We had intended to point out the errors into which Dr. Comstock 

 falls in the application of this system, but want of space compels us to 

 terminate our remarks thus abruptly. 



COLLEGE RECOIID. 



Tko Examination. — The time for holding iliv. piiMic cxaniiniilinu of 

 the students of Pennsylvania College, having, by a resolution of the 

 Board of Trustees, been changed from the end to the middle of the 

 session, the week commencing with tlie od. ult., was devoted to that 

 purpose. As this arrangement may not yet be known to many of our 

 friends, and it may be interesting to them to be informed of the result 

 of this its first trial, it is deemed proper to insert this notice in the 

 Journal. 



The following programm, which was previously published in sev- 

 eral of the public papers of the vicinity, c.\ial)it5i the order of subjects 

 of the examination : — 



