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Rh Kwaiawata the bones are kept in the house for some time, and then removed and exposed in shallow rock shelters in the sea cliffs.

The book contains a very large number of very excellent and well-chosen photographs, and fifty illustrations in the text. A very interesting feature is the large number of reproductions of native drawings, serving in most cases to elucidate ceremonies, but incidentally illustrating other matters, and demonstrating the artistic skill of the natives. Dr. Seligmann's book is a notable contribution to ethnology, and deserves a place in every student's library.

pleasant book on the people of the isle of Uap in the Caroline Group is not specially meant for anthropologists. Rather it is aimed at the general reader. Consequently special students are left asking for more, and hoping that Dr. Furness will communicate more precise and more extensive information to some anthropological serial. We want to know about the rules regulating marriage in Uap, about totems (if they exist in any degree), about names for human relationships, classificatory or descriptive; and perhaps Dr. Furness may some day enlighten us. He has a curious chapter on the failu or the club-house of the males, into which very little boys may wander freely. It it also the resting place of weary fishers home from the sea, who are tabued so strictly that they may not even see the faces of women or come near them. The lads of each failu carry away a pretty girl from some other community, perhaps of old by sheer violence; now some secret bargaining is probably done. Though she is common to all the adult members of the club, she is treated with perfect courtesy and kindness; too long attachments to any individual are gently discouraged, but, as far as she is concerned, there is no jealousy. The life of a