DU BOIS'S PITHECANTHROPOID. 



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The picture is at first sight repulsive. There we 

 have portrayed a family of the ape-man, kin to the species 

 found in Neanderthal, Cannstatt, and Spy, who must have 

 been more savage than the savages. His brutish nature 



MADONNA AND CHILD. (By Gabriel Max.) 



still shows in his bodily appearance and yet the more we 

 look at the picture the more it gains on us ! 



Verily, we discover a close resemblance of the scene 

 represented by Gabriel Max to pictures of the holy family. 

 And considered rightly, the similarity is by no means 



