These remarks, made by one who, during his lifetime, was recognised by friend and foe as the first Chinese scholar in Europe, ought to have their proper weight. They ought certainly to make us cautious before persuading ourselves that the connection between the northern and southern branches of the Turanian languages has been found in Chinese. On the other hand I am quite aware that all that M. Stanislas Julien says against Mr. Edkins may be true, and that nevertheless Chinese may have been the central language from which Mongolian in the north and Tibetan in the south branched off. A language, such as Chinese, with a small number of sounds and an immense number of meanings, can easily give birth to dialects which, in their later development, might branch off in totally different directions. Even with languages so closely connected as Sanskrit and Latin, it would be easy to make out a list of a thousand words in Latin which could not be matched in Sanskrit. The question, therefore, is not decided. What is wanted are researches carried on by competent scholars, in an unprejudiced and at the same time thoroughly scientific spirit.] [Footnote 28: If Mr. Chalmers’ comparison of the Chinese and Bohemian names for daughter is so unpardonable, what shall we say of Bopp’s comparison of the Bengali and Sanskrit names for sister? Sister in Bengali is +bohinî+, the Hindi +bahin+ and +bhân+, the Prakrit +bahiṇî+, the Sanskrit +bhaginî+. Bopp, in the most elaborate way, derives +bohinî+ from the Sanskrit +svasṛ+, sister. Bopp, _Vergleichende Grammatik_, Vorrede zur vierten Abtheilung, p. x.] [Footnote 29: Curtius, _Verbum_, p. 72.] [Footnote 30: Pott, E. F., 1871, p. 21.] [Footnote 31: Dr. Callaway, in his _Remarks on the Zulu Language_ (1870), p. 2, says: “The Zulu Language contains upwards of 20,000 words in _bonâ fide_ use among the people. Those curious appellations for different colored cattle, or for different maize cobs, to express certain minute peculiarities of color or arrangement of color, which it is difficult for us to grasp, are not synonymous, but instances in which a new noun or name is used instead of adding adjectives to one name to express the various conditions of an object. Neither are these various verbs used to express varieties of the same action, synonyms, such as _ukupata_, to carry in the hand, _ukwetshata_, to carry on the shoulder, _ukubeleta_, to carry on the back.”] [Footnote 32: Bruppacher, _Lantlere der Oskischen Sprache_, p. 48. Büchler, _Grundriss der Lateinischen Declination_, p. 1.] [Footnote 33: “Die Entstehung der Casus ist noch das allerdunkelste im weiten Bereich des indogermanischen Formensystems.” Curtius, _Chronologie_, p. 71.] [Footnote 34: Corssen, ii. 888.]