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constructed cover of a pitfall, and he has taken up a twig or two by 

 his trunk. 



Plate III., " Hunting the Reindeer in Southern France," 

 described at page 59, we have already alluded to. 



Plate IV., " Hunters Feasting on Horseflesh in Southern 

 France." Four trowsered, half-bare, tattoed men, sitting, kneeling, 

 squatting, and crossed-legged, with a shaggy dead horse near by, and 

 a roughly clad man coming along with something heavy on his 

 shoulder. One of the feasters is talking and pointing excitedly, or 

 toasting a bit on his spear (?). Two Indian wigwams are placed at 

 the side. 



Plate v., " Hunters in Rock-shelter at Night in Southern 

 France," is reproduced here by permission. The interior of a cave, 

 with skin (?) hangings at the doorway, into which a trowsered and 

 otherwise clad man is coming. Two bare little children are near the 

 fire on the floor, one lying down, and one standing up with a long 

 marrow-bone in her hand. The parents are sitting on a ledge of the 

 cave ; the man nude, and either scraping or carving a bone (?), 

 apparently with only one leg, but rapt in artistic ecstasy. The 

 woman, also unclothed, but having an armlet, and apparently sewing 

 a long-haired skin (?) with long sinew thread. It is probably after 

 supper, as the cooking sticks for roasting (?) are not at the fire now. 



Plate VI., " Swiss Lake-dwellers ; an evening scene. Bronze 

 age." The full-dressed man is paddling home in his dug-out ; the 

 children, thinly clad, look out from the railing ; the woman, wearing 

 a black dress with a tartan-plaid skirt, is fishing with rod and line and 

 float ; cattle are coming along the bridge, followed by two men 

 carrying a dead deer. 



Plate VII., "An Interment in a Long Barrow, Later Stone Age." 

 A dark group of mourners, bearing a corpse, which is tied up nose 

 and knees (in orthodox fashion), towards the entrance of a chambered 

 burial-mound. 



Plate VIII., "The Warrior's Courtship, Denmark; all the 

 clothing, weapons, ornaments, taken from actual discoveries in the 

 peat of Denmark. Bronze Age." This rests upon Dr. Sophus 

 Miiller's outline restorations in his " Voroltid." The modest-looking 

 young woman, without shoes and stockings, with her water-jar at 

 hand, has been gently detained by a good-looking, trowserless spear- 

 man. Possibly he will abduct her (according to the custom of 

 marriage by capture) if she will not go with him willingly. 



Plate IX., " Two British Warriors. Bronze Age." Specimens 

 of cavalry and infantry, better than the Roman writers describe 

 them. It is pleasant to see the old Britishers rehabilitated. 



Plate X., "The Construction of Stonehenge " by the Dwarfs (!) 

 according to H. N. Hutchinson, C. H. Read, and Flinders Petrie, see 

 page 279. 



American Ethnology. 



The Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. By J. W 

 Powell. Pp. lix., 462, pis. Ix. Washington: Smithsonian Inst., 1S96. 



The Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, addressed to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, have so long been amongst the most valued 

 publications devoted to the study of human races, both living and 

 extinct, that general laudatory remarks are unnecessary on the 

 appearance of a new volume. Suffice it to say that the consistently 

 high standard of excellence observable in the previous volumes of 



