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treatise designed for general reading, though the less surprising in view of the author's equally persistent magnification of the glories and beau- ties of the Celt. The little book is neatly printed, and illustrated with four somatologic maps, but is without an index.

The History of Mankind, By Professor Friedrich Ratzel. Translated from the second German edition by A. J. Butler, M. A. Volume in. London : Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York : The Mac- millan Company, 1898. Roy. 8°, xiii, 599 pp., ills.

So much has already been said in commendation of the first two volumes of Butler's translation of Ratzel's work that it seems almost unnecessary to comment on the third volume, which, published late in 1898, crowns the success of a noteworthy undertaking. As a reference work to the anthropologist, in whatever special field his attention may be directed, and as a series of great text-books to the English-reading layman interested in the Science of Man, this improved English edition of Ratzel's Volkerkunde is of pronounced value. It takes the place of numerous works of similar scope that have appeared during the last half-century, but which have become inadequate by reason of the strides which Anthropology has made during that period. The third volume continues the treatment, in ample manner, of the negro races (the Africans of the interior and the West Africans), as well as of the cul- tured races of the Old World. The mechanical excellence of the pre- vious volumes is maintained throughout volume in, which is illustrated with two colored maps, eleven colored plates, and two hundred and sixty-seven other illustrations — all essential to the elucidation of the text of a work of this kind, and all beautifully reproduced. A copious index of the work (twenty pages) and an index of all the illustrations in the series (ten pages) complete the volume.

F. W. Hodge.

Ruins of the Saga Time : Being an Account of Travels atid Explorations in Iceland in the Summer of iSpj, by Thorsteinn Erlingsson, on behalf of Miss Cornelia Horsford, Cambridge, U. S. A. With an introduction by F. T. N orris and Jfdn Slefdnsson, Ph.Z>. f and a resume*, in French, by E. D. Grand. London : David Nutt, 1899. 8°, 112 pp., ills., map.

In 1895 Miss Cornelia Horsford of Cambridge, Massachusetts, com- missioned Dr Valtyr Gufcmundsson, Professor of the University of Copenhagen, and an Icelander by birth, to select a man of ability for the archeologic exploration of Iceland, in order to obtain definite answers to a series of questions formulated by her. These answers are

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