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of works, with an aggregate of more than 30,000 pages, have 

 previously appeared, and to these has been added during the 

 year an important contribution by Sylvanus G. Morley, Associate 

 in Central American Archeology, entitled ''The Inscriptions at 

 Copan " (quarto, pp. xii+643) . This gives the results of researches 

 extending over nearly a decade, but much interrupted by the 

 world war and bj^ the difficulties of exploration in the forests of a 

 tropical cHmate. All those interested in the pursuit of the numer- 

 ous investigations which in our day, or in the near future, 

 promise to penetrate the mythology which has hitherto veiled 

 the origin and the progress of primitive man, will join in the hope 

 that this volume by Morley may be only the first of a series of 

 contributions from his pen toward an understanding of Mayan 

 civilization. 



