DUMANJUG  , a

town of the province of Celli, island of Celli, Philippine Islands, on the W. coast, at the mouth of the Duman-jug river, about 4o m . S.W. of the town of Cebfi . Pop . (1903) 22,203 . In 1903, after the census had been taken, the adjacent town of Ronda (pop . 9662) was annexed to Dumanjug . Duman-jug is in communication with the town of Sibonga, on the opposite shore of one of the few passes through the mountains of the interior . Indian corn and sugar-cane are grown successfully in the neighbouring country, and the town has an important coast trade . DU MARSAIS, CESAR CHESNEAU, SIEUR (1676-1756), French philologist, was born at Marseilles on the 17th of July 1676 . He was educated in his native town by the Fathers of the Oratory, into whose congregation he entered; but he left it at the age of twenty-five and went to Paris, where he marriedand was admitted an advocate (1704) . He was tutor to the sons successively of the president de Maisons, of John Law, the projector, and of the marquis de Bauffremont . He then opened a boarding school in the faubourg St Victor, which scarcely afforded him the means of subsistence .

He made contributions of

great value on philological and philosophical subjects to the Encyclopedic, and after vain attempts to secure a competence from the court he was insured against want by the generosity of a private patron . He died in Paris on the I Ith of June 1756 . The researches of Du Marsais are distinguished by considerable individuality . He held sensible views on education and elaborated a system of teaching Latin, which, although open to grave criticism,wasauseful protest against current methods of teaching . His best works are his Principes de grammaire and his Des tropes, ou des diferents sens clans lesquels on pent prendre un mot (1730) . An edition of his works (7 vols.) was collected by Duchosal and Millon, and was'published with an eloge on Du Marsais by D'Alembert at Paris in 1797 .