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Whether one agrees with Mr. Radclifie in all his conclusions or not — and 

 they are so carefully considered that they are difficult to resist — one can 

 unfeignedly admire the wealth of information and the critical acumen he 

 brings to bear on his subject. Nor can one fail to be impressed with the 

 extraordinary diligence he has shown in presenting his readers with quotations 

 numerous and apt, bringing to light many they had known and forgotten, 

 and many from sources difficult of access of which even well-read scholars need 

 not blush to acknowledge their ignorance. 



One beauty of this book is its discursiveness. Ne sutor supra crepidam 

 is a good rule generally, but in the " contemplative man's recreation " it 

 would be boredom. Thoughts will rise like trout in June, and Mr. Radclifie 

 captures not a few, and lays them out for our inspection and admiration. 

 Fish of many kinds, toothsome and t'other sort : Fish Gods ; Fish Symbols ; 

 the " mighty " (to borrow Izaak's epithet) fish-suppers and sauces of Imperial 

 Rome, with their " mighty " cost which pauperised many a " mighty " man ; 

 the power of the chefs, who boasted, not always vainly, that they did more 

 for the success of international congresses than the appointed delegates ; 

 the shrewd wit — calliditas — of the ancient fishermen, and their general 

 poverty, — all provoke to discursiveness, and the author and his readers are 

 the better for letting themselves " go." 



In a fine chapter on Chinese Fishing we learn that Confucius was a 

 sportsman as well as a sage — " The Master angled, but did not use a net; he 

 shot, but not at birds perching " — and in every chapter of this book the sage 

 shines out as clearly as the sportsman. 



From all lovers of the " gentle art," especially if they are scholars, as also 

 from those who, though they know " little Latin and less Greek," are lovers of 

 big and little fishes, I bespeak a cordial welcome for this admirable book, which 

 will assuredly become one of the " classics " on Angling. 



Donald Macrae. 



Man and his Past. By O. G. S. Crawford. [Pp. xiv 4- 227, with a frontis- 

 piece, 2 maps, and 10 other illustrations.] (Oxford ; H. Milford, 192 1. 

 Price I05. 6d. net.) 

 This well-written volume consists of nineteen chapters dealing with various 

 aspects of the study of mankind, in the widest sense. The book consists of 

 discussions rather than descriptions, and indeed the chapters are really a series 

 of connected essays. Thus chapter iii answers the question, " What is 

 archaeology ? " Chapter iv discusses the relations of archaeology to history ; 

 chapter v is concerned with archaeology and anthropology (in the confined 

 sense) ; and later chapters deal with methods of archaeology, distributions, 

 excavations, old roads, museums, and other matters. All the chapters make 

 pleasant reading, and are redolent of culture ; but the book contains little 

 that will be new to archaeologists or anthropologists. The author is rightly 

 anxious for a synthesis of all the various branches of the study of mankind, 

 for which he suggests the name " andrology," to distinguish it from anthro- 

 pology in the confined sense. In Mr. Crawford's hands archaeology is by no 

 means a merely academic science ; it has a living relationship to sociology ; 

 he has attained a truer perspective than ordinary historians, and his criticisms 

 of the ordinary methods of teaching history (chapter ii) are very timely. In 

 his discussion of museums, he puts forward sound ideals, but his criticism 

 of existing institutions scarcely does justice to the improvements of the last 

 twenty-five years, which have been brought about so largely by the Museums 

 Association. A. G. T. 



Invertebrate Palaeontology. By Herbert Leader Hawkins, M.Sc. 

 [Pp. xix + 226, with 16 plates.] (London: Metheun & Co., 1920. 

 Price 6s. 6d. net.) 



The sub-title describes this book as an " introduction to the study of fossils," 



