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 142 Journal of American Folk-Lore.

The paper contains information of an ethnological, geographical, lin- guistic, etc., nature concerning these and some other Indian tribes of the part of the continent in question.

Patagonia. In the "Deutsche Rundschau" (Berlin), J. Greger publishes (vol. xxi. 1899, pp. 206-219) an account of " Patagonien und dersen Benohner."

GENERAL.

Captives. In "Globus" (vol. lxxv. 1899, pp. 256-261), Friederici writes of " Die Behaudlung weiblicher Gefangener durch die In- dianer von Nordamerika " — Indian treatment of female captives.

Dolls. In "Globus" (vol. lxxv. 1899, pp. 354-356), C. Steffens writes about "Die Indian erpuppensammlung von FrauA. L. Dicker- man."

Ethnology. A work of considerable value to students of folk- lore is J. Deniker's " The Races of Man : An Outline of Anthro- pology and Ethnography" (London, 1900, pp. xxiii. + 611, with 176 illustrations and 2 maps). The chapters on " Ethnic Characters " (pp. 123-143) and "Sociological Characters" (pp. 145-279) treat of gesture, sign-language, writing, food, firemaking, industries, stimu- lants, houses, utensils, clothing and ornaments, tools, hunting and fishing, agriculture, domestic animals, games and recreations, arts, dance, music, religion, primitive sciences, family and social life. The part of the work relating to America is the least satisfactory. — With Deniker's work should be read Prof. A. H. Keane's " Man Past and Present " (Cambridge, 1899), though there is less of folk- lore in it.

Folk-Lore. To the " American Anthropologist " (vol. ii. pp. 1- 36) for January-March, 1900, Major J. W. Powell contributes an interesting and suggestive article on " The Lessons of Folk-Lore." The author tells how " the study of folk-lore has come to be the most practical and valuable of all the sciences, for it reveals the origin and nature of superstitions, and makes the grand scientific distinction between valid concepts and uncanny visions " (p. 24). The opin- ions set forth are strengthened by references to the lore of Ameri- can savages, which the author has so well under control.

Houses. In the " American Antiquarian " (vol. xxii. pp. 84-100) for March-April, 1900, Rev. S. D. Peet has an illustrated article on " The Earliest Constructed Dwellings and the Locality in which Man made his First Home."

Mathematics. Some interesting facts and speculations as to the origin and development of human thought and lore about numbers are to be found in the article on " The Beginning of Mathematics," which Prof. W. J. McGee contributes to the October number (vol. i.

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