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The National Quarterly Review^ 1875, pt. iv., has an article 

 on Prehistoric Greece. 



The whole subject of the European Stone Age is com- 

 prehensively and ably presented by Dr. Charles Ran, of 

 New York, in Harper's Magazine from April to September, 

 1875. 



Africa. Dr. Chil y Naranjo read a note before the French 

 Association describing the superstitious practices of the an- 

 cient Canariens. 



There is an account of old Egyptian culture in the light 

 of modern researches in Aitsland of March 9th, et seq., with 

 profuse references to authorities. 



Hyde Clarke read a paper before the British Association 

 at Bristol on prehistoric culture in India and Africa. 



Asia. F. von Hellwald treats of the voyages of the Phoe- 

 nicians in Auslandy January 4, 1875, et seq. 



The surveys of the Palestine Exploration Fund have been 

 pushed forward this season, and many sites have been iden- 

 tified. The party was attacked during the summer, and 

 some of them wounded, including Lieutenant Conder. 



The American Palestine Exploration Society have pushed 

 their work forward on the east of the Jordan. 



George Smith has again visited the Mesopotamian valley. 

 He has written two volumes of the "Ancient History from 

 the Monuments," and he has been able to recover from the 

 fragments in the British Museum the legend of the buildino- 

 of the tower of Babel. 



At the meeting of the Anthropological Institute, Novem- 

 ber 24, 1874, Mr. C. Colesworth read a communication de- 

 scribing the ruined towers of Palmyra, containing skulls and 

 other human remains, which were examined and reported on 

 by Professor Busk. 



The volume of Monier Williams, entitled "Indian Wis- 

 dom" (London, 1875, 8vo), is the best work on the litera- 

 ture, religion, etc., of the ancient Hindoos for the general 

 reader. 



General Cunningham has issued from Calcutta his report 

 of the Archaeological Survey of India. James Burgess has 

 also published (London, 1875, 4to) an Archaeological Survey 

 of Western India. 



Polynesia. Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology (No. 



