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districts who could speak no other. The aged couple who occupied 
the house at the entrance of the cavern of Laugerie Basse, excavated 
by M. Massanet, speak only the Basque language, and any one 
visiting there must take with him an interpreter who speaks French 
and Basque. 
; On the other hand, the language of the Normans, who came as 
invaders and settled permanently in that province in the north of 
rance which bears their name, had entirely died out. It never 
established itself as a separate language, but joining itself to the 
French made a dialect, a bastard language, which was neither the 
one nor the other. The Gallic language brought from Wales or 
Cornwall into Brittany had survived side by side with the French 
and continued as a separate language in spite of all efforts of the 
government to root it out. It was now a law of France that none 
of these ancient languages, at once foreign and indigenous to France, 
shall be taught in the public schools. 
Mr. Wilson described the dolmens, menhirs, and other monu- 
ments of Spain and France and told something of the efforts made 
to rescue and preserve them. 
Mrs. Anita Newcomb McGee, wife of Prof. McGee, of Washing- 
` ton, D. C., read the paper of the afternoon, entitled “ American 
Communities.” This lady had one of the largest audiences of the 
entire meeting. She was listened to with close attention and 
received many congratulations. She described in detail with the 
necessary statistics, the seven principal communistic societies which 
had been established during the past century in the United States. 
Her arguments were fairly made and her deductions correct. She did 
not undervalue a benefit, nor overstate an objection, yet she said she 
was forced to the conclusion that communism could not permanently 
rival independent competition. She closed with three fundamental 
objections to, or causes for failure of communities. 
- A community does not admit that wide differentiation of labor 
and variety of occupation which is found outside, and is considered 
a sign of progress, a 
_ + A community is an institution intermediate between the indi- 
vidual and the State, and is antagonistic to that other more natural 
intermediate institution—the family. This has been felt by com- 
family, i.e., making the two one, but it so pronounced a return to 
conditions long abandoned in the course of evolution, that later or 
monogamie instincts (now normal) refuse to be suppressed, an 
finally cause the failure of this attempted solution. C. The reten- 
