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Generale and able licutenantsin arranging with such perfect system an 

 accumulation of industries so vast. In fact, French instinct and taste 

 alone is able to provide a display so unique, charming with its touch of 

 magnificence like a dream of the Orient, and with its evidence of utility 

 so appropriate to the Occident. But it is in the art gallery Mr. Forster 

 is most at home. He told how to look at pictures ; not to go at them 

 with your eyes wide open and attempt to cram everything into your 

 brain, but to approach them cautiously, feeling for the value of light, and 

 for the sense of refinement, which is always present in a lasting work of 

 art. The English pictures are pretty, tasteful, modest subjects. In pro- 

 ducing luminous effects by a simple study of light, the Continental 

 schools are far in advance of the English. 



Mr. T. B. Browning, M.A., read a paper on " The Codification of the 

 Law, (second paper), Real and Personal Property." 



English property law, he said, is a growth marked by two main tend- 

 encies. The first results in multiplicity, as in the many real property 

 actions (over 70) which were in use at the opening of the last reign, each 

 of which gave a distinct relief The second is towards unity, and consists 

 in bringing to rule the jarring mass of remedies, principles, statutes and 

 cases that had grown up in the law. In speaking of the codification of 

 the property law, Mr. Browning held that the main obstacle to it was the 

 maintenance of the division of property into real and personal, with its 

 consequences, and argued for the abolition of the distinction and the 

 reduction of property to a unified standard. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" The D^n^ Languages considered in themselves and in their relations 

 to the principal linguistic groups," by Rev. .\. G. Morice, O.M.I. 

 " The Philology of the Cree Languages," by Rev. E. B. Glass, B.A. 

 " The Crees sociologically considered," by Rev. R. P. V^gr^ville, O.M.I. 



TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING. 



Twenty-fourth Meeting, 26th April 1890, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 92. 



A communication was read from La R. Accademia delle Scienze del' 



