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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9

The appeal eigiiod li.v Hit' (.■liniicdlor ■of-Cambridge University tor a sum of money-lu endow the leaching of French Rives' publicity lo the. astonishing fact that until recently thi'ic was no profes-. snrshiii of French nl. Cum bridge, Males "The -Queen.-" Tho Drapers' Company is giving the stipend of a professor for ton years, mid the University, sadly impoverished by the war, is seeking the ;ncans'of raltiiiß up n lectureship in Trench to.bo' lield by tin eiuineiit, French-ii;-jn,' nn alinnnl lectureship, by means ot whicli 'distinguished frenchmen may cciniinuiiicalc " tho results of- French scholarships lo English eludents a lectureship, and two travelling studentships. Tho "Times" commends this scheme as a trilrato to lM'iinco; it is no less necessary as ii means for 'eiitiblii)!,' young Unglishmen unci women to pirticipnle in. that Latin culture which is the -bust oorrcctivo of many of our insular failings in exact thought and precise expression... No one is so capable, no one so willing as a learned Frenchman to supplement our deficiencies ami subdue, the ov.er-emphasifi 'which We; like'the Ai n evicn ns J .-tend lo_ consider as tho.oiil.v.altcriiai.ivo. to.'Ua.tness of diction. .An adequate.teaching'jf Fronc'li might: .well bring, with- it a revival-of the icackitic-of 1/Dslish.