HENRY, VICTOR (i8so-1907), French philologist, was born at Colmar in Alsace on Aug. 17, 185o. Having held appoint ments at Douai and Lille, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar in the University of Paris. A prolific and versatile writer, he is probably best known by the English translations of his Précis de Grammaire comparee de l'anglais et de l'allemand and Précis . . . du Grec et du Latin. Important works by him on India and Indian languages are : Manuel pour etudier le Sanscrit vedique (with A. Bergaigne, 1890) ; Elements de Sanscrit classique (1902) ; Précis de grammaire Palle 0904); Les Litteratures de l'Inde: Sanscrit, Pali, Pracrit (19o4); La Magie dans l'Inde antique 0904); Le Parsisme 0905); L'Agnis toma (1906). Obscure languages (such as Innok, Quichua, Green land) and local dialects (Lexique etymologique du Breton sno derne; Le Dialecte Alaman de Colmar) also claimed his attention. Le Langage .d artien is a curious book. It contains a discussion of some 4o phrases (amounting to about 30o words), which a certain Mademoiselle Helene Smith (a well-known spiritualist medium of Geneva), while on a hypnotic visit to the planet Mars, learnt and repeated and even wrote down during her trance as specimens of a language spoken there, explained to her by a disembodied interpreter.