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the older settlements of our own country attention has frequently been 
called to the decline in the number of large families. 
Dr. Robert Fletcher has brought together, in his address before the 
Anthropological Society of Washington as retiring president, the re- 
sults of a careful study of the new school of criminal anthropology. 
By criminal anthropology is meant the study of the being who, in 
consequence of physical conformation, hereditary taint, or surround- 
ings of vice, poverty, and ill example, yields to temptation and begins 
a career of crime. It is to study the anatomy, the physiology, the 
hygiene of the criminal, his productivity, his capability of amend- 
ment, to examine into his condition, and to recognize his rights. 
An indispensable work to students of the history of human marriage 
is Edward Westermarck’s work, published by Macmillan. The author, 
it is true, is at issue with almost every school of anthropology, and for 
that reason presents the subject from anew point of view, but he has 
brought together a vast amount of material, and his list of authorities 
quoted amounts to a full bibliography. 
The pedagogic problem has been taken up from the side of anthro- 
pology. Fresident G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, Worcester, 
Mass., has established a new journal, entitled ‘ The Pedagogical Sem- 
inary,” as an international record of educational literature, institutions, 
and progress. The second number of vol. I, is devoted largely to 
children and adolescents, and deserves that the contents be given 
bodily: 
Editorial. G. Stanley Hall. 
Notes on the study of infants. G. Stanley Hall. 
Contents of children’s minds on entering school. Jd. 
The moral and religious training of children and adolescents. Jd 
Childrens’ lies. Id. 
The study of adolescence. Mrs. H. Burnham. 
Observations of children at the Worcester Normal School. Jd. 
Anthropological investigations of schools. F. Boas. 
Reviews are also given of the following: 
The story of a sand pile. By G. Stanley Hall, June, 1888. 
Boy life in a Massachusetts town a quarter of a century ago. /d. Proc. Am. Antiq. 
Soc., 1880, p. 107-128. 
Rudimentary society among boys. By John Johnson. Overland Monthly, and Johns 
Hopkins Hist. and Polit. Studies, 1884. 
Observations on college seniors. By A. E. Kirkpatrick. Am. J. of Psychol., 1890, 
168 pp. 
Physical training in American colleges and universities. By E. M. Hartwell. Cir- 
cular of Information, Bureau of Education, No. 5, 1885, 185 pp. 
Physical training conference. Jd. Boston, 1889, p. 155. 
Physical and industrial training of criminals. By H. D. Wey. Industrial Edue. 
Assoc., N. Y., 1888, p. 50. 
Overpressure in the high schools of Denmark. By Dr. Hirtel. London, 1885. 148 pp. 
The growth of children. By H. P. Bowditch. HKighth An. Rept. Mass. Bd. of Health, 
Boston, 1877; also Tenth An. Rept. 
Why do we measure mankind! Francis Galton. Lippincott’s, February, 1890; also 
the reports of Mr. Galton’s laboratory work and measuring apparatus. 
Cambridge anthropometry. By John Veron. J. Anthrop. Inst., xviii, 140 pp. 
