448 Recent Literature, [ May, | 
help to students, undoubtedly, but of what help they will be, can 
be gathered from a remark of Dr. Otto Stoll, who studied the 
tongue on the spot. He states (Zur Ethnographie Guatemalas, 
p. 139), that Cakchiquel possesses three tenses only, and that the 
three or four others given by the Spanish missionaries do not 
exist, but were “squeezed out” of the natives by the application 
of Latin models. The verb lok‘ (p. 146) which supplied para- 
digms to the unfortunate grammatic attempts of the Padres to 
conjugate amare, to love, does not signify żo Jove at all, but fo pur- 
chase. The verb to prize, to hold dear, to esteem, is not, as falsely 
quoted by Brinton (p. 216), lok‘, but lok‘oj (Stoll, p. 147). Or 
did the language change as much as that within the last two hun- 
dred years? 
à In the Introduction, p. ọ, the editor states that the three Maya 
7 nations more closely related to the Cakchiquels: the Quichés, the 
Tzutuhils and the Akahals “ dwelt respectively to the west, the 
south and the east of the Cakchiquels.” Had he looked up the 
matter in Stoll’s map and in the map of the Grammar published 
by himself, he would have noticed that the Kichés lived, and 
still live, upon a much larger territorial extent, north, west and 
partly south of the Cakchiquels, and that the Tzutuhils are ‘en- 
closed on all except the western side by Cakchiquel settlements. 
a In the long list above, the mistakes and shortcomings were 
quoted from a few pages of the book only, and readers may 
decide for themselves how numerous the errors may be for the 
other nineteen twentieths of the volume. It was edited on false 
educated at German universities, should republish the chrome’ 
and the still wanting family record after scientific principles, add- 
_ Tudest kind of malpractice. —A. S. G. 
REPORT oF THE New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STA- 
-  Tion.’—It does not speak well for the kind of work generally done 
-< upon the agricultural experiment stations of this country that 
_ readers of scientific journals do not expect to find in them reviews 
_ of the annually published reports. Agriculture has been curse 
_ by a greater amount of very poor work under the name of exper- 
1 Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 
| Experiment Station for the year 1885. With the reports of the director and officers: 
‘Transmitted to the Legislature January, 1886. Rochester, N. Y., E. R. Andrews, 
_ printer and buokbinder, 1886. 
