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" The Japhetites and their Dispersion " ; VI. 

 " Principal Types of Mankind " ; VII. " Lim- 

 ited Scope of Biblical Ethnography " ; VIII. 

 " A Glance at Hebrew Chronology " ; IX. 

 " Elements of Egyptian Chronology " ; X. 

 " Prenoachite Races " ; XI. " Race Dis- 

 tinctions " ; XII. " Biblical Antiquity of 

 Race Distinctions " ; XIII. " More Biblical 

 Antiquity of Race Distinctions " ; XIV. 

 " Preadamite Races " ; XV. " Hamitic Ori- 

 gin of Negroes considered " ; XVI. " Negro 

 Inferiority " ; XVII. " Do Races degener- 

 ate ? " ; XVIII. " Theological Consequences 

 of Preadamitism " ; XIX. " Genealogy of 

 the Black Races " ; XX. " Genealogy of the 

 Brown Races " ; XXI. " Genealogy of the 

 White Race " ; XXII. " The CradTe of Hu- 

 manity and the Dispersion of the Black 

 Races " ; XXIII. " Dispersion of the Asiatic 

 Mongoloids " ; XXIV. " Dispersion of the 

 American Mongoloids " ; XXV. " Disper- 

 sion of the Dravidians and Mediterrane- 

 ans " ; XXVI. " Condition of Primitive 

 Man"; XXVII. "Antiquity of Man"; 



XXVIII. " The Patriarchal Periods " ; 



XXIX. " Preadamitism in Literature.". 



Dr. Winchell's book is got up in elegant 

 form. It contains a large number of beau- 

 tifully executed illustrations, with some fine- 

 ly worked charts. Press-work and binding 

 are in the best style, doing credit to the 

 enterprise of the publisher and to the profi- 

 ciency of industrial art in the city where it 

 was produced. 



The Life and Writings of Henry Thomas 

 Buckle. By Alfred Henry Hutu. 

 New York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 

 502. Price, $2. 



Though the career of Buckle was not 

 filled with striking incidents, such as are 

 commonly supposed to be necessary to give 

 interest to biography, it was, nevertheless, 

 of so marked and individual a character 

 that its delineation is certain to prove both 

 instructive and entertaining to a large num- 

 ber of readers. Whatever may be the final 

 verdict as to the value of his intellectual 

 work, Buckle was certainly a power in the 

 thought of his time a man of force, origi- 

 nality, and independence, so conspicuous as 

 to give significance to the personal particu- 

 lars of his life. There was much curiosity 

 about him as to who he was, and what had 



been his history, when he suddenly shot up 

 from obscurity to a brilliant position in lit- 

 erature, and various sketches of him were 

 called forth at the time, although they were 

 meager and unsatisfactory. This volume is 

 the first extended biography of Buckle that 

 has appeared ; and, although his intimate 

 friend, Mr. Huth, writes as an ardent ad- 

 mirer, he has endeavored to make a just 

 estimate of his character as a man and a 

 thinker. The volume derives large interest 

 from the considerable correspondence which 

 it reproduces, and which throws much light 

 on the habits, peculiarities, and opinions of 

 the man. Mr. Huth makes an excellent 

 summary of the leading conceptions of Buc- 

 kle's work, pointing out what seem to be 

 the fundamental conceptions that are due to 

 him, and which it is claimed have largely 

 contributed to place history in the category 

 of the sciences. It may be freely conceded, 

 at any rate, that he did a great service in 

 presenting this view in so captivating a 

 style, and with such a wealth of illustrations, 

 as to make a profound impression upon the 

 popular mind. His " History of Civilization 

 in England" was a liberalizing book, and 

 exerted an educating influence upon multi- 

 tudes of readers. 



Like many other men who have achieved 

 a position and done valuable work, Buckle's 

 early education was out of the common rou- 

 tine which more often cramps than develops. 

 He was, in fact, allowed to do pretty much 

 as he desired with regard to study, and was, 

 therefore, free to follow his own bent. His 

 individuality was but little interfered with, 

 and he was left to the best of all culture 

 self-culture. The death of his father, when 

 he was but nineteen years of age, left him 

 in easy circumstances, with leisure to pur- 

 sue his studies in the direction of his chosen 

 life-work. The idea of the history was at 

 first vague in his mind, and grew into more 

 definite shape with advancing years. While 

 yet without experience of the formidable 

 labor before him, he drew up the most am- 

 bitious schemes of the history of civiliza- 

 tion which he proposed to execute in a series 

 of twenty volumes, but he died at the early 

 age of forty-one, with only a fragment of 

 his great design accomplished. It was a 

 noble purpose to which he consecrated his 

 life, and even in its very partial attainment 



