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 PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK. 6$ Whatever could be said in elegant form in favor of Greek as the best international language for scholars, has been said and written by these eminent men of learning, by men who were ac- complished scholars, both of classical and living Greek. Gustave d'Eichthal died April 9th, 1886, at Paris. He had not seen the result of his unselfish labors, which he had longed for so ardently. Greek had not yet become the universal lan- guage. The valiant leaders of the Greek move- ment were admired, but although there had been official recognition and approval by the French Minister of Instruction of the aims of Gustave d'Eichthal and his co-laborers, no prac- tical progress had been accomplished. Mean- while a German, August Boltz, had published a book, entitled " Greek the General Language of the Future for vScholars," which infused new life into the question of the study of living Greek, and in the year 1886 another German, Dr. Eduard Engel, whom I have quoted extensively in this paper, commenced to write against the methods of instruction in Greek prevailing in German schools. In most powerful style he ex- posed the old fogyism, and a new movement in favor of living Greek followed. In the year