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tion will also be felt by the sociologist. A comparison with the method of the Bibliographic Unircrsalis Economica makes this lack felt. There the re-entry of the title under all subjects of which it treats, and the very close classification, indicating the exact subject of the book, make the class list almost as particularized as an index.

These shortcomings are made good to some extent by the second (dictionary) part of the Catalog, which serves as a sort of index to the first part. Here the classification is closer, more comprehensive, and more diversified. There are analytical, more subject headings, sub-entries, sub-classification under large headings such as countries, and title and series entry where important. Public documents are included in the classification. Yet even here one looks in vain for such familiar terms as "demography," "social statistics," "genetic sociology," " social history," " association," " comparative sociology," etc., on all of which there are books included.

Much of this criticism will doubtless apply only to the present edition of the book, and was caused by the haste in preparing it for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It is so good and so vitally needed a piece of work that one cannot but covet for it that perfec- tion which it approaches, but does not attain.

FRANK L. TOLMAN.

CHICAGO.

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia. By BALDWIN

SPENCER AND F. J. GILLEN. New York : The Macmillan

Co., 1904. Pp. xxxv + 784. $6.50. The Native Tribes of South East Australia. By A. W. HOWITT.

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1904. Pp. xix + 8i9-

$6.50.

Spencer and Gillen's earlier work, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, was regarded by sociologists, on its appearance about four years ago, as throwing more light on the origins or society than any ethnological work which had appeared, perhaps, within a generation, and the appearance of works of similar importance in the same field and covering neighboring territory was hardly anticipated. But the same writers have now issued another volume of equal interest and scientific value, and Mr. Howitt, who has worked in southeast Australia for forty years, and who has already made numerous valuable contributions to our knowledge of the natives, has new brought together the results of his studies in a final form. And in one respect, at least the treatment of the personality of the Aus-