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642 Americanus, Caucasicus. This terminology has been seriously criticised. The White or Eurafrican race did not originate in the Caucasus, nor is the typical black man an Ethiopian, nor again are all members of the Yellow or Asian race, Mongolians. No racial designations, however, have been proposed to which no objection has been made, and while we do not ourselves prefer this terminology, it is true, as the author says in speaking of "Caucasic," that the "word, like so many others in scientific nomenclature, is purely conventional."

The original home of the human species the author believes to be somewhere in Indo-African and Austral regions. This is not widely, though slightly, different from Dr. Brinton's view.

Some of the other important questions discussed are the linguistic problem in Oceanica, the racial problem in Australia and Tasmania, the peopling of America, the Ibero-Berber question, the Aryan cradleland, the Aryan race problem. We heartily commend Mr. Keane's book both to those who desire to learn something of the distribution of men and their affinities, and to those who wish to know what ethnology is, what its problems are, and by what methods it works; as well as to the serious student of anthropological problems.


 * Essays in Taxation.


 * Studies in Economics.


 * Growth of English Policy.


 * Heredity and Christian Problems.


 * Our Industrial Utopia.


 * Law of Civilization and Decay.


 * Proportional Representation.


 * Criminal Sociology.


 * Economic History of Virginia.


 * The Mercantile System.


 * Principles of Pedagogy.


 * Woman under Monasticism.


 * Labor in its Relations to Law.


 * L'idée de l'état.


 * La Question Sociale