224 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ Vou. TL 
The domain of Celtic prosody is wide and fertile ; and, although several 
tillers of the soil have ploughed many a deep and fruitful furrow in it, 
very much yet remains to be done. There is need of a Eugene O’Curry, 
who, intensely in love with the language and the poetry of his Celtic fore- 
fathers and brethren, will apply rare powers of mind and diligence to the 
thorough elucidation, for the benefit of his fellow Celts and of the literary 
world at large, of Celtic prosody, acting until his task has been happily 
completed, on thé advice of one of the acknowledged masters of Latin 
verse ; 
“Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna.” 
