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^Esthetic Culture. 



Mr. E. B. Tylor read a paper before the Anthropological 

 Institute in April, on the Game of Patolli in Ancient Mexico, 

 and its probable Asiatic origin. Mr. W. S. Jevons contrib- 

 utes to the Contemporary Review for October an article on 

 Amusements for the People. Mr. Edwin A. Barber, of Ches- 

 ter, Pa., is preparing a monograph on pipes and smoking, in 

 all ages and nations. Art-weaving among the Ancients is 

 the subject of an article by Mr. T. W. Dale, in the Penn 

 Monthly for February. Rev. A. H. Sayce describes the Art 

 of Prehistoric Greece in the Academy for March 2. A paper 

 on the Influence of Climate upon the Development of Art, 

 especially of Architecture, will be found in Correspondenz- 



blatt, Nos. 1 and 2. 



The Family. 



Mr. C. S. Wake read a paper before the Anthropological 

 Institute, April 25, on the Origin of the Classificatory Sys- 

 tem of Relationship among Primitive Peoples. In Archiv far 

 Anthropologic, I. and II., Dr. Lothar Dargun discusses the 

 problem of the Origin of Marriage. Mr. A. G. Sedgwick pub- 

 lishes an article on Primitive Communism in the Atlantic 

 Monthly for September. The papers of Dr. Hoffman on Abor- 

 tion and Prostitution, in the American Naturalist, are wor- 

 thy of attention. The July number of Kosmos, for 1877, 

 gives us a paper on the Subjection of the Old by the Young. 

 Professor De Gubernatis publishes, in Milan, a work entitled 

 " Storia Comparata degli Usi Xatalizi in Italia e presso di 

 altri Popoli Indo-Europei." 



Social Life. 



This portion of culture, so intimately connected with hu- 

 man happiness, engages the best minds of the world. Indeed, 

 so thoroughly are legislators and jurists convinced of the close 

 relation between social science and good government, that 

 all prominent law-makers are students of sociology. Upon 

 this point, attention is invited to a paper in Das Ausland, 

 No. 10, upon Hospitality among Lower Races; to Mr. T. F. 

 Dyer's work on "British Popular Customs ;" to Du Bois Ray- 

 mond's address on the History of Civilization, in the Revue 

 Scientifique, January 19 ; to a paper in the Proceedings of the 



