572 General Notes. ; (June, 
from each of the three races, the 72d Jew, reckoned from the 
least able, would equal in ability the 74th Scotchman or the 76th 
Englishman, and would be the superior to the 72d of either of 
the other two races. Thus we arrive at last at a real comparative 
estimate of Jewish ability, which we may state roughly in the fol- 
owing way: The average Jew has four per cent more ability than 
the average Englishman, and two per cent more than the average 
‘ Scotchman, 
Mendelssohn. In the second class are Auerbach, Benfey, 
Borne, Cremieux; Gans, A. Geiger, Greetz, Halévy, Sir W. Her- 
schell, Jacobi, Jessel, Lasker, Maimon, Marx, Meyerbeer, Neander, 
ppert, Palgrave, Rachel, Ricardo, Jules Simon, Steinthal and 
Lazarus, Sylvester, Steinschneider and Zunz. ‘ 
The reasons assigned by Mr. Jacobs for Jewish ability in cer- 
tain lines are doubtless correct, and furnish a confutation of the 
doctrine that only prosperity ministers to human progress. 
Tue Mancue Lancuace.—Dr. Brinton read before the Ameri- 
can Philosophical Society, in November last, a paper onthe a 
an extinct dialect formerly spoken in Nicaragua. The chi 
the whole coast, from the entrance of the Gulf of Nicoya to 
Fonseca bay. Some time in the fourteenth century a large col- 
ony of Aztecs descended the coast and seized the strip between 
‘Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific, thus splitting the Mangues in 
two and driving a large part of them from their homes. 
“TABLEAU pes Bacass” is the name given by Leon de Rosny 
‘to a certain double plate of the Cortesian Codex. By that name 
he intended to indicate that the table or plate refers to the four 
- Bacabs, or gods, which were supposed to bear up the four corners 
~ _ Of the earth—the gods of the cardinal points. = 
= _ On this plate are the four characters supposed to be the gir 
= bols of the cardinal points. As these probably occupy 0° ie 
plate their proper relative positions, we have here, perhaps, fs 
~ best existing data by which to determine the respective points 
_ which the symbols are assigned. pN D 
_ _ Entering upon the study of the plate with this object in Yi 
_ I soon formed the opinion that the plate is, in fact, a 
_ dar table. The discovery that the rows of day symbols, Se 
dots in the outer form but a single continuous line an co 
-cycle of thirteen months, or 260 days, convinces him of the co ok 
ness of this opinion. Applying this discovery to the plate 44°" 
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Vichy = 
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