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tendency of English speech that the placing of the accent is highly 
important. 
Representing the unaccented vowels by dots the common pro- 
nunciation of Carabus, Carabide and Carabine is respectively 
Car. b. s., C. rab. d., C. r. bin., words which to the ear have very 
little in common while in the true Latin pronunciation with all 
vowels given their true sound the difference is more comparable 
with the difference between sin, sinner, sinned or sinning. 
As a practical suggestion to cover that great class of words 
whose derivation we do not know, the careful avoidance of these 
two tendencies will result in a pronunciation very close to the cor- 
rect one and a word completely intelligible to anyone, even those 
who are used to an incorrect placing and exaggeration of the 
accent. 
The vowels may be all pronounced as in the English words 
what, they, machine, tho and rue, the y being a shortened 7, and 
do not exaggerate the accent but give the penultimate and ante- 
penultimate syllable approximately equal stress. 
This suggestion is simply intended to enable the user of un- 
known Latin words to avoid the prevalent gross errors of pro- 
nunciation in those cases where the precise pronunciation is un- 
known and reduces the possible error to the minimum. 
Field Book of Insects, with special reference to those of north- 
eastern United States, aiming to answer common questions. By 
FRANK FE. Lutz, Pu.D., associate curator, Department of Inver- 
tebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. With 
about 800 illustrations, many in color. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 
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