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velop her faculties as an artist ; and examples 

 are given of the patterns that savage women 

 in America have worked out, which for 

 beauty and harmony of design are not more 

 than equaled by the most exquisite speci- 

 mens of Grecian work in the same lines. 

 American Indian costumes are shown which 

 may be compared with the most picturesque. 

 While there were burden-bearers among the 

 animals before, "the idea of modifying a 

 natural object for the purpose of creating a 

 carrying tool seems first to have occurred to 

 the human female." It is not enough, in 

 speaking of savage women, says the author, 

 " to say that they, as a class, do this or that. 

 It should be also asked how many of these 

 are performed by one woman in short, by 

 every woman." This thought is introduc- 

 tory to a consideration of the diversity of 

 occupations in which they must be proficient 

 to a chapter on " The Jack-at-all trades." 

 Woman is further presented as " The Founder 

 of Society," by virtue of her motherhood and 

 what it implies, and as " The Patron of Re- 

 ligion." Finally, "in whatever actions the 

 primitive women excelled and the number 

 is not small they surely deserve the apothe- 

 osis they have received for their development 

 of the maternal side of life. . . . For the 

 highest ideals in civilization, in humanita- 

 rianism, in education, and government, the 

 way was prepared in savagery by mothers 

 and by the female clan groups, and the most 

 commanding positions are at this moment in 

 their possession." The book is good read- 

 ing, and is abundantly and handsomely illus- 

 trated. 



Hoofs, Claws, and Antlers of the Rocky 

 Mountains by the Camera. With an In- 

 troduction by the Hon. Theodore Roose- 

 velt. Denver, Col. : Frank S. Travis. 

 Pp. 7, with 32 Plates. 



This is a book of photographic reproduc- 

 tions from life of wild game deer, antelope. 

 Rocky Mountain goat, bighorn, puma, bison, 

 bear, etc. of the Rocky Mountains. Most of 

 the pictures were taken by Mr. and Mrs. A. 

 G. Wallihan, settlers in northwestern Colo- 

 rado, accomplished sportsmen both, natural- 

 ists, and photographers. They were neces- 

 sarily taken under great disadvantages ; for 

 a suitable position had to be secured of ani- 

 mals which would vanish at the least alarm, 



with favorable light-exposures. It is not 

 wonderful, therefore, that the failures vastly 

 outnumbered the successes. Only successes 

 are given. In order to make the collection 

 of wild animals found in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains complete, a few photographs taken by 

 others than Mr. and Mrs. Wallihan are used. 

 The text gives sketches of the lives of Mr. 

 and Mi's. Wallihan, by themselves, stories of 

 their adventures among the animals, and in- 

 cidents of the circumstances under which the 

 several photographs were taken. There is 

 no posing for positions in these pictures ; the 

 animals are represented truly as they were 

 found, unwitting that anything was going on, 

 or at the instant when they were startled by 

 the first perception of the novel proceeding. 

 Among them are a buck which has just no- 

 ticed the photographic apparatus, with his 

 doe still unconscious ; a group of deer at the 

 ford on a winter morning ; two startled bucks 

 just ready to jump ; a doe swimming Bear 

 River ; a buck standing alone in his glen ; a 

 pair crossing a stream ; three alarmed ante- 

 lopes ; herds and groups of antelopes in dif- 

 ferent attitudes ; Rocky Mountain goats on 

 their clifP ; elks single and in groups ; a puma 

 on the lookout from a tree top, and a puma 

 treed ; bighorns startled, a wild cat, and buf- 

 falo ; bears in the berry patch ; beavers at 

 work ; sage hens, a wolf in search of break- 

 fast, a jack-rabbit, a prairie-dog colony, list- 

 ening deer, a rattlesnake coiled to strike, and 

 game pictures. Mr. Roosevelt, who is ac- 

 quainted with the game, speaks admiringly 

 of the naturahiess and accuracy of the atti- 

 tudes, and believes that the book is " unique 

 and of the utmost value." We think natural- 

 ists and artists will agree with him. 



Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of 

 the United States. By Samdel Hub- 

 BARD Scudder. Washington: Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. Pp. 206, with 

 Twelve Plates. 



This work is published as Monograph 

 XXI, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey. The author published in 1890 an 

 account of all the Tertiary insects of the 

 country known up to a few years, as far as 

 regarded the lower orders; but the higher 

 orders were nearly untouched. These fur- 

 nished an immense amount of material, the 

 elaboration of which was begun at once. The 



