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inspire a new religion. As man has made god in his own image, so he can remake him. The recasting must be in the language of the present age, not in that of the sixth century B.C., nor in that of the Augustan age when belief in prodigies and portents was the language of common thought.

What man has made, man can make again. He has created many a spiritual world in the past, and he can build more stately mansions for the soul in the years to come. The old creations were visionary, largely unreal, of the substance of dreams, shot through with nightmare visions; but the newer realism of the spirit will be finer, with sounder basic foundations in human nature, and with loftier possibilities for the advancing of human interests. Religion, therefore, is not passing away, but coming into its own. It may, and doubtless will, lose the supernatural and the miraculous, its saints and its prophets; but it will gain in the multitude of its faithful men and women, in those who have the qualities of the hero, and who can give themselves unstintedly for the service of their fellows. We may welcome with joy the day of this new and more beauteous religion, for it means that what belongs to human welfare will grow marvellously in every part of the world, and among all the races of men.

This may not furnish much cheer to the orthodox. But those who- have read the author through with sympathy will not have much ortho- doxy to mix with cheer.

WILSON D. WALLIS,

NORTH AMERICA

Preliminary Account of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos

and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado. EARL H. MORRIS.

(Thirty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,

pages 155-206, plates 31-75, figs, i-n.) Washington, 1919.

This paper describes excavations carried out by Mr. Morris in the

summers of 1913 and 1914 for the University of Colorado. The region

investigated is a plateau bounded on the east by the Mancos river

and on the west by the La Plata; or, archaeologically speaking, a part of

the northern San Juan area lying between the Mesa Verde and Aztec

districts. ,

The first section of the report concerns itself with certain, ruins in Johnson canon, an eastern tributary of the Mancos. The sites are cliff-houses identical, as the author points out, in everything but size with those of the Mesa Verde, so well known from the writings of Nor- denskiold and Fewkes. The descriptions are detailed and accurate and the minor antiquities recovered are fully illustrated. There is one mis-

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