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460 she was admitted across the threshold of the British Association? So revolutionary are the changes witnessed in these latter days that all this reads like ancient history. These changes have brought acceptance, not only of the fact of man's ascent in an unbroken line from the lowest life-forms, but of the fundamental identity between, and continuity of, animal and human faculties. And it is on this philosophical side that Dr. Tylor has rendered such abiding service. His "main interest," as Dr. Lang says, "has been in beliefs and institutions." The Early History of Mankind, for the most part, dealt with the tangible relics of man's advance; it is in Primitive Culture that we have demonstration of the significance of intangible materials for knowledge of the beliefs, customs, and social institutions of the various races of mankind. The precis of the twenty Gifford lectures on Natural Religion, delivered before the University of Aberdeen in 1889-90 and 1890-91, which is given in the Bibliography, will make every student of Anthropology the more solicitous that Dr. Tylor may ere long be able to commit these lectures to the press. The two portraits of him which enrich these Essays are welcome; more welcome still is the later photograph, an admirable likeness, which appears in the current number of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2em

new volume of L'Année Sociologique is more interesting than ever to students of folklore. It contains three Mémoires Originaux devoted to the consideration of problems of importance and remarkable for the skill and acuteness which the authors have brought to the task of resolution. Space will not avail for the consideration of these essays as they deserve; but