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The Foundation of Death : A Study of the Drink Question. 

 By Axel Gustafson and Zadel Barnes Gustafson. Fifth edition revised, 8vo, 

 pp. xxxi. — 566. (London : Ilodder and Stoughton. 1888.) 



The authors of the Iraok before us have treated the subject in a thoroughly 

 exhaustive manner. The work is divided into thirteen chapters, which treat of 

 Drinking among the Ancients, History of Distillation, Adulteration, The 

 Physiological, Pathological, and Moral Effects of Alcohol, etc. etc. 



Pre-Glacian Man and the Aryan Race. By Lorenzo Burge. 



Crown 8vo, pp. 272. (Boston, U.S.A. : Leeand Shepard. 1S87.) Price $1.50. 



Perhaps we cannot better describe this book than by quoting its somewhat 

 quaint title more at length : — 



" A History of Creation, and of the Birthplace and Wanderings of Man in 

 Central Asia, from B.C. 32,500 to B.C. 8,000, with a history of the Aryan race, 

 commencing B.C. 15,000, their rise and progress, and the promulgation of the 

 first revelation ; their spiritual decline, and the destruction of the Nation B.C. 

 4,705, the inroad of the Turanians, and the scattering of the remnant 

 of the race, B.C. 4,304, as deciphered from a very ancient document. 

 Also, an exposition of the law governing the formation and duration of the 

 great glacial period, and a record of its effects on Man, and on the configura- 

 tion of the globe ; a chapter on the Deluge : its cause, locality, and extent ; 

 and an account of the ' Cannes Myth.' " 



Introduction to Physical Science. By A. P. Gage, Ph.D. 



Post 8vo, pp. viii. — 353. (Boston : Ginn and Co. 1888.) 



The author tells us it has been his aim to adapt the book to the require- 

 ments and facilities of the average high school, and he has endeavoured to 

 bring the subjects within the comprehension of the ordinary pupil, without 

 attem])ting to " popularise " them by the use of loose and unscientific language. 



The work contains upwards of three hundred good illustrations. 



Among the Cannibals of New Guinea, being the Story of 



the New Guinea Mission of the London Missionary Society. By Rev. .S. 

 McFarlane, LL.D., F.R.C.S. Post 8vo, pp. 192. (London: London Mis- 

 sionary .^ociety. John Snow and Co. 1888.) Price 5s. 



We have here most interesting accounts of the Home of the Cannibals, 

 How we get at them. Exploration and Opening up of the Country, Manners 

 and Customs of the Cannibals, etc. etc. The book is illustrated with a series 

 of original drawings by an artist who has visited the island ; it contains also 

 portraits of the author, and of two other pioneers of the New Guinea Mission. 



The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft : The Native 

 Races of the Pacific States. Vol. L, Wild Tribes. 8vo, pp. xlix. — 797. 

 (London: Triibner and Co. San Francisco : The History Publishing Co.) 



This volume, which is the first of a long series of historical works, evinces 

 a vast amount of research, no fewer than twelve hundred authors, a list of 

 whose writings are given, having been consulted in writing " The Native 

 Races." In it are given the manners and customs, occupation, food, dress, 

 dwellings, social habits, etc., of all the ruder nations from Alaska to Panama. 

 The first chapter is an ethnological introduction, after which the author 

 describes the physical and mental characteristics of the Native Races of the 

 Pacific States under seven distinct groups : — i. Hyperboreans ; 2, Columbians; 

 3, Californians ; 4, New Mexicans; 5, Wild Tribes of Mexico ; 6, Wild 

 Tribes of Central America ; 7, Civilised Nations of Mexico and Central 

 America. The last are not alluded to in the present volume. Several good 

 maps are given, and the whole work will doubtless prove of great interest. 



