MAN BEFORE METALS. 
By N. JOLY, 
Professor at the Science Faculty of Toulouse. 
With 148 Illustrations. - - - - 12mo, cloth, $1.75. 
CONTENTS.—Part I. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE HuMAN Race: J. The Pre- 
historic Ages; If. The Work of Boucher de Perthes; II. The Bone Caves; IV 
The Peat Mosses and the Kitchen Middens; V. The Lake Dwellings and the 
Nurachi: VI. Burial Places; VII. Prehistoric Man in America; VIII. Man of 
the Tertiary Epoch; IX. The Great Antiquity of Man. Part I]. Primitive 
CIVILIZATION: I. Domestic Life ; II. Industry; I!I. Agriculture ; IV. Naviga- 
tion and Commerce ; V. The Fine Arts; VI. Language and Writing; VII. Re- 
ligion ; VIII. The Portrait of Quaternary Man. 
“The discussion of man’s origin and early history, by Professor De Quatre- 
fages, formed one of the most useful volumes in the ‘ International Scientific Se- 
ries,’ and the same collection is now further enriched by a popular treatise on 
paleontology by M. N. Joly, Professor in the University of Toulouse. The title 
ot the book, ‘ Man before Metals,’ indicates the limitations of the writer’s theme. 
His object is to bring together the numerous proofs, collected by modern research, 
of the great age of the human race, and to show us what man was, in respect of 
customs, industries, aud moral or religious ideas, before the use of metals was 
known to Lim.”’—Wew York Sun. 
‘** Professor Joly’s ‘Man before Metals’ is a good elementary hand-book on 
primitive humanity. The author gives somewhat in detail the various proofs 
with regard to the antiquity of man, including chapters on prehistoric man in 
America, and man of the Tertiary epoch. The second part of the book deals with 
primitive civilization, with chapters on the development of domestic life, indus- 
try, agriculture, navigation and commerce, the fine arts, language and writing, 
and religious ideas. Professor Joly pictures man during the ae ee! age as 
living in caves, subsisting largely on raw flesh, although fire had long been known, 
armed with stone hunting implements, and clothed in skins which were sewed 
together by means of the bone needle. The indications of cann‘balism and hu- 
man sacrifice Professor Joly regards as ‘overwhelming.’ But in spite of these 
barbarous customs Quaternary man resembled his descendants of to-day ‘in ell 
essential points.’ ‘He was man in all senses of the word—anatomically, intel- 
lectually, and morally.’”— Boston Daily Evening Travelier. 
** An interesting, not to say fascinating, volume.”’—Wew York Churchman. 
“M. Joly’s book sums up the discoveries of modern science bearing on the 
primeval history of man, on the antiquity of the human race, and on the circum- 
stances attending its slow and partial ascent to the modern level of civilization. 
It also presents with brevity but thoroughness the generally accepted theories 
relating to the habits and environment of primitive man. Its usefulness and in- 
terest are much increased by numerous and excellent illustrations.” —Philadd- 
_phia North American. 
“* This is a book worth owning.”—New York Christian Advocate. 
“Tt is a book of value for study or for readers generally, and the many impor- 
tant discoveries of comparatively recent date give it special interest to American 
scholars, who have made so many of them.”—New Haven Daily Palladium. 
‘* Professor Joly does not even attempt to guess at the age of prehistoric man. 
Many times ten thousand years is probably as near as reasonable conjecture can 
come to it. The chapters are on general notions of the structure of the earth, 
the splintered rocks of Abbeville, the bone-caves, the Danish peat-mosses, the 
lake-dwellings of Switzerland, various modes of sepulture, prehistoric man in 
America, man of the Tertiary epoch, the great antiquity of man, the origin of the 
rise of fire, the making of stone implements, primitive agriculture, navigation, 
arts of Gesign in caves, the origin of speech, religious ideas of primitive man, 
and the portrait of Quaternary man.’’— Cincinnati Commercial- Gazette. 
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