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stated—“If you wish to assert that language had various beginnings you 
have had a common 
common origin of language. e D 
however as going any farther on this question than the above statement 
of the problem which we have given in his own words. To leave the 
question in this position is, we think, to leave it at the point to which 
seience has brought it. Any statement beyond this, in favor of the com- 
mon origin of language, we believe, rather partakes of exaggeration. 
The further solution of the problem, belongs to the future of the still 
young “science of language.” 
Mr. Miller’s review of Adam Smith’s and Leibnitz’s opposite views, as 
the writings of other investigators, and a merited tribute paid to Mr, 
Marsh’s first volume of lectures upon the English language. We ful 
agree with him in thinking “that if inductive reasoning is worth any- 
thing, we are justified in believing that what has been proved to be true 
oa large scale, and in cases where it was least expected, is true with 
ns. The ple con! 
this desirable end. It is sufficiently comprehensive in Its scope for the 
Several heads of—Elementary Projections—DVetais: 
Onry, Wood and Metal— Rudimentary Exercises 
adows—Isometrical Drawing—and Elementary Structural “again 
While the general plan is scientific without being unnecessarily i see 
the Special topics are discussed in a simple and Jucid manner. t etn 
be men ioned, as an additional recommendation of the work, that v 
able tadimentary instruction is incidentally conveyed in it, in the arts 
“onstruction, 
