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REVIEWS. 



Paradise Found. The cradle of the human race at the North Pole. 

 By William F. Warren, S. T. D., LL. D. President of Boston 

 University. 12 mo., pp. 500. Illustrated. $1.50. Second Edition. 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 1885. 



The first thought that naturally comes to the reader of the 

 above startling announcement is that the book must either be 

 the work of a dreamer or a cunningly devised fable. A careful 

 reading of the work, however, will show that the author makes 

 a sincere and serious attempt to solve one of the most fasci- 

 nating of all problems. That it is an important problem also 

 is well understood when it occurs to us that the historian, the 

 archaeologist, the ethnologist, the philologist, and the theologian 

 must all work in the dark until the starting-point of human 

 history can be determined. But to locate the starting point at 

 the North Pole seems at first to be the wildest of specula- 

 tions. Yet the author is willing to let the whole theory rest 

 upon the solid facts as they are presented, and he submits the 

 question to the following proofs : 



1. General geogony, or the science of the origin of the earth: 



2. Mathematical or astronomical geography, particularly its 

 teachings as to the inhabitableness or uninhabitableness of the circum- 

 polar region with respect to light : 



3. Physiographical geology, particularly its teachings as to the 

 probability or improbability of the former existence and subsequent 

 submersion of a circumpolar country : 4. Prehistoric climatology, 

 particularly with reference to the temperature at the pole at the time 

 of the beginning of human history : 5. Paleontological Botany; 6, 

 Paleontological Zoology; 7, Paleological Amthropology and Ethnology ; 

 and 8, Comparative Mythology. 



This eight-fold test is presented, and met with such a mass 

 of facts that the reader is obliged to say at the very least that 

 the verification is much more complete than is usual in matters 

 of prehistoric research. It is a work that will attract the 

 widest attention, and can be read with interest and profit by 

 all. The question is, " Was the cradle of the human race, the 

 Eden of primitive tradition, situated at the North Pole, in a 

 country submerged at the time of the Deluge " ? 



