FIELDING, WILLIAM J. Woman the eternal primitive.

Not in my most wildly optimistic moments did I think Hiordis, the chief female charactera primitive, fighting, free, open-air personsuited to me, but I saw a way of playing her more brilliantly and less weightily than the text suggested, and anyhow I was not thinking so much of the play for me as for my son.

He had before the fifth year, or in that year, not only skill to read most written hands, but to decline all the nouns, conjugate the verbs regular, and most of the irregular; got by heart almost the entire vocabulary of Latin and French primitives and words, could make congruous syntax, turn English into Latin and vice versa, construe and prove what he read, began himself to write legibly, and had a strong passion for Greek.

"To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives.