The translation of specimens of the "Recent French Poets," by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, are [has been] very brightly done.Guardian.

The inferior number of red particles in their blood do [does] not make women the political inferiors of men.-Prof. T. C. Leslie.

Nothing but dreary dikes, muddy and straight, guarded by the ghosts of suicidal pollards, and by rows of dreary and desolate mills, occur [occurs] to break the blank gray monotony of the landscape.-F. W. Farrar: St. Winifred.

"Than" as a Connective.-Than, as a conjunction, is used to connect sentences; as, "He is older than I" (am old). Dr. Hodgson and some others take the ground that than must connect like cases, nominative with nominative, and objective with objective. Thus, they would condemn the following sentence from Kingsley's Westward Ho: "Think not of me, good fellows, nor talk of me; but come behind me decently, as Christian men, and follow to the grave the body of a better than I" and change the I to me, on the ground that the conjunction connects the noun man in the objective with the pronoun I, which they claim should also be in the objective case.

The conjunction than connects sentences here as elsewhere, and the sentence means, "Follow to the grave a better man than I" (am good), and it is correct as written by Mr. Kingsley.

So also the following from Dickens, which Dr. Hodg son condemns, is correct: "The smooth manner of the spy, cautiously in dissonance with his ostentatiously rough dress, and probably with his usual demeanor, received such a check from the inscrutability of Carton, who was a mystery to wiser and honester men than he, that it faltered here, and failed him."

Errors in Case with "Than" as a Connective.

I'll tell you what, brother Frank, you are a great deal wiser than me [I], I know, but I can't abide to see you turn up your nose, as it were, at God's good earth.-Kingsley.

He must be a wiser man than me [I] who can tell what advantage or satisfaction he derives from having brought such a nest of hornets about his ears.-Smollett.

INFINITIVES.

A verb in the infinitive mode is not limited by person. or number.

It may be used as a noun in either the nominative or the objective case.

It may be used also as a modifier of any part of speech except an article, a preposition, a conjunction, or an interjection.

When the infinitive is used as a noun, it may still be modified as a verb.

The verb in the infinitive mode is sometimes used independently; as, "To confess the truth, I forgot the date."

The infinitive of an intransitive verb, or of a transitive verb in the passive voice, may be followed by a noun or a pronoun used independently; as, "To become a successful man requires industry."

The infinitive after a word of command is usually preceded by a noun or a pronoun in the objective case; as, "We ordered him to come," the whole expression being the object of the finite verb ordered.

The sign to must not be separated from the remaining part of the infinitive by an intervening word. Thus, "He tried finally to pay," not "He tried to finally pay."

After the active voice of the verbs bid (to command), see, feel, hear, let, make, dare (to venture), and verbs of similar meaning, as watch, behold, etc., the sign to of the infinitive is omitted; as, "See him go;" "Let us play."

The sign to is occasionally used after a few of the foregoing words when they are emphatic; as, "Darest thou to beard the lion in his den?”

The infinitive sign to should never be used for the full form. Thus, "I did not go because I did not want to," should be "I did not go because I did not want to go."

When the action, being, or state, expressed by the infinitive, is present or future as compared with that expressed by the verb which it limits, the present tense of the infinitive is used. Thus, "I expected to come;" that is, I expected at that time to come then or in the future.

When the action, being, or state, expressed by the infinitive, is past as compared with that expressed by the verb which it limits, the present perfect tense of the infinitive is used. Thus, "Cæsar seems (present time) to have been (past time) ambitious."

Verbs expressing hope, intention, desire, command, or expectation, are followed by the present tense of the infinitive.

Errors in the Use of the Infinitive.

There are several faults which I intended to have mentioned [to mention]. Webster.

They hoped to have met [to meet] each other.-Newspaper. So as neither to embarrass nor (to) weaken each other.Blair.

Their character is found and made (to) appear.-Butler's Analogy.

He wanted to go, but he had no opportunity to (go).—Newspaper.

He was made (to) believe that neither the king's death nor (his) imprisonment would help him.-Sheffield's Works.

He can show his moral courage only by daring (to) do right. -Goold Brown.

The bulls of Guisando are two vast statues remaining in that town ever since the time of the Romans, supposed to be [to have been] set up by Metellus.-Lockhart's Don Quixote.

We ought not to try and [to] define God.-Taine.

They would not say that the facts stated in the indictment would have been fully sufficient to have warranted [to warrant] the judge to have directed [to direct], and the jury to have given [to give], a general verdict.-Lord Erskine.

(Better, "Fully sufficient to warrant the judge in directing the jury to give," etc.)

I found him better than I expected to have found [to find] him.-Priestley's Grammar.

I meant, when I first came, to have bought [to buy] it.-Sydney Smith.

It has been my intention to have collected [to collect] the remnants of Keats' compositions.-Shelley.

I intended to have insisted [to insist] on this sympathy at greater length.-Ruskin.

Friendships which we once hoped and believed would never have grown [grow] cold.-F. W. Farrar: Julian Home.

Could I have chosen my own period of the world to have lived [to live] in, and my own type of life, it should be [would have been] the feudal age, and the life of the Cid, the redresser of wrongs.-Rev. F. W. Robertson.

I had hoped never to have seen [to see] the statues again when I missed them on the bridge.-Macaulay.

He paid me many compliments upon my sermon against bad husbands, so that it is clear he intended to have made [to make] a very good one.e.-Sydney Smith.

We should have thought that the Bishop might have been contented to have pointed [to point] out that to nations, as to individuals, selfishness is its own worst punishment.—Spectator.

We happened to have been [to be] present on the occasion.— Mayhew: German Life.

We would have liked to have read [to read] it to Isola; it would have been pleasant to have heard [to hear] his own voice giving due emphasis to the big words.-Mrs. Lynn Linton: Sowing the Wind.

If he had lived longer, it would have been difficult for him to have kept [to keep] the station to which he had risen.-H. L. Bulwer, in Historical Characters.

That the mind may not have to go backwards and forwards in order to rightly correct [rightly to correct] them.-Herbert Spencer.

I wish the reader to clearly understand [to understand clearly]. -Ruskin.

Transactions which seem to be most widely separated [to be separated most widely] from one another.-Dr. Blair.

The ladies seem to have been expressly created [to have been created expressly] to form helps meet for such gentlemen.Macaulay.

The spirits, therefore, of those opposed to them seemed to be considerably damped [to be damped considerably] by their continued success.-Scott.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded [to be guarded ever] is scarcely worth the sentinel.-Goldsmith.

In works of art, this kind of grandeur, which consists in multitude, is to be very cautiously guarded [to be guarded very cautiously].-Burke.

Sufficient to disgust a people whose manners were beginning to be strongly tinctured [to be tinctured strongly] with austerity. -Macaulay.

PARTICIPLES.

A Participle partakes of the nature of a verb and of an adjective.

When a participle is used as a noun it may be in either the nominative or the objective case, and be modified in all respects like a verb.

A participle used as a noun may be limited by a possessive; as, "My staying did not interfere with their running."