376 Reviews. | April, 
Tue Nucro’s Pace ww Nature. By James Hunt, Ph.D., &e. 
Triibner and Co. 
In the Introduction to this ‘Journal’ we referred to a paper on the 
above subject, read before the members of the British Association ; 
and this is now published, the author tells us, by the general wish of 
the Fellows of the Anthropological Society, of which he is the 
president. 
We ventured, in speaking of the original paper, to differ from the 
views of the author, which we believe to be contrary to the evidence 
and at variance with the opinions of the most advanced physiologists 
of the day, and drew attention to the fact that the most important 
question of hybridity had been almost completely ignored, and that 
what little was said of it ran counter to the author's doctrine of a specific 
difference between the white man and the Negro. We also mentioned, 
in passing, that a Newcastle journal did not hesitate to hint broadly 
that the gentlemen who thus sought to degrade the Negro race (for the 
president found a warm supporter in his secretary, Mr. Carter Blake) 
were the tools of the Southern confederacy, and that their services 
had been enlisted as the champions of slavery in England. 
In adopting the supposition of the Newcastle paper, we confess 
that we were guilty of indiscretion, and we have to apologize to the 
shrewd and discerning politicians who administer the affairs of the 
Southern Confederacy, for having supposed them capable of adding to 
the indiscretion of attempting to found their new empire upon the 
basis of slavery, by using such an instrument as this for the purpose 
of obtaining sympathy in England. 
No! Great as may be the fatuity of the Southern people on 
the question of slavery, they would never have attempted thus to 
“inoculate” us, the ‘outer barbarians,” as the author has it in his 
dedication to “My dear Burton ;’ and we are now prepared to accept 
his statement concerning the object of his paper, as perfectly original 
and emanating from himself alone,—viz. that when the truth comes 
out, “the public will have their eyes opened, and will see in its true 
dimensions that gigantic imposture known by the name of ‘ Negro 
Emancipation.’ ” 
But we must treat our readers with an extract from the work, in 
order that they may judge of the kind of material with which it is 
intended to explode this “ gigantic imposture,” and they will at once 
have an opportunity of judging of its science and its morale :— 
“* But while the analysis of a single bone or of a single feature of the 
Negro is thus sufficient to demonstrate the specific character, or to show 
the diversity of race, that great fact is still more obviously and with equal 
certainty revealed in the form, attitude, and other external qualities. he 
Negro is incapable of an erect or direct perpendicular posture. ‘The general 
structure of his limbs, the form of the pelvis, the spine, the way the head 
is set on the shoulders, in short, the towt ensemble of the anatomical forma- 
tion forbids an erect position. But while the whole structure is thus 
adapted to a slightly stooping posture, the head would seem to be the 
