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reindeer in the act of 

 browsing, and reproduced 

 in the accompanying fi< r - 

 ure. This sketch is so 

 well executed that it may 

 be considered as the most 

 perfect specimen of art 

 transmitted to us from 

 those remote times. It is 

 certainly superior to the 

 best productions of this 

 kind from the caves of 

 Southern France. 



A subject of growing 

 archaeological interest is 

 the origin and relation- 

 ship of the Etruscans, and 

 the attempts to decipher 

 their language are multi- 

 plying. The effort of Mr. 

 Isaac Taylor to assign to 

 them a Turanian origin 

 has awakened a great deal 

 of controversy. Dr. Cors- 

 sen, the first volume of 

 whose great work, con- 

 taining 1016 pages; has 

 just been published, as- 

 signs to them an Aryan 

 origin, in which opinion, 

 of course, Professor Max Muller agrees. 



The most scholarly and recent work on prehistoric re- 

 mains in Europe is "Cave Hunting: Researches on the Ev- 

 idence of Caves respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe, 

 London, 18*74," by Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins. The author, after 

 narrating briefly the historic interest which has always hung 

 around caves, describes in detail the researches which have 

 been made in all of the principal caves of Europe, and the 

 results which have accrued. Up to its publication, the re- 

 mains of the Paleolithic man have been discovered in the fol- 

 lowing caves: 



