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games among children of many races, in unconscious continuation 

 of the early use of certain weapons and kinds of warfare, or of manual 

 work, of superstitions, and of gambling. 



Much is collected in these chapters about the scratch-cradle and 

 its meanings, about kites, tops, and tug-of-war game, and especially 

 about the whirring, whizzing, buzzing, booming, perforated stick, 

 whirled violently around with a string. This (known as the " Bull- 

 roarer ") is recognized as the ancient widespread ceremonial imple- 

 ment, once awing the superstitious, and still important in the hands 

 of the conductors of the rite's of Initiation in Australia. Children's 

 singing-games are mainly concerned with courtship, marriage, 

 funeral rites, and belief in ghosts, evidently (though distantly) 

 representing ancient customs and lines of thought, in some cases 

 still surviving in full force among savages and, in feebler fashion, 

 among civilized communities. 



Chapter XVI., pages 431-467, reprints the " practical suggestions 

 for conducting ethnographical investigations in the British Islands," 

 and includes at pages 467-489 " Instructions for the Collection of 

 Folk-lore," an important branch of the science. 



Appendix A consists of Dr. D. G. Brinton's comprehensive and 

 very useful Classification and International Nomenclature of the 

 Anthropological Sciences, namely: — (1) Somatology, (2) Ethnology, 

 (3) Ethnography, (4) Archaeology, and their subdivisions. A careful 

 Index completes this well-co'nsidered and welcome addition to the 

 library of both the experienced scientist and of the general reader 

 who wishes to enlarge his knowledge, feeling assured that a careful 

 systematic study of Mankind is a good and proper object for the 

 cultivated intellect of Man. 



Trouessarfs Catalogue of Mammals. 



Catalogus Mammalium, tarn viventium quam fossilium. By E. L. 

 Tkotjessaet. Parts IV. and V., containing the Orders Tillodontia, 

 Ungulata, Sirenia, Cetacea, Edentata, Marsupialia, and Mono- 

 tremata. Berlin : Friedliinder and Son, 1898. 



"With the exception of the Addenda and Index Dr. Trouessart has 

 now completed his stupendous task ; and all naturalists owe him a 

 debt of gratitude, the extent of which it is almost impossible to 

 express in words. Till he had this work to refer to, it was in many 

 cases a matter of extreme difficulty for the zoologist or palaeontolo- 

 gist to discover how many species (whether valid or nominal) of a 

 particular group had been named ; but for the future all is compa- 

 ratively plain sailing. 



That the work has faults is, as we have pointed out in previous 

 notices, from the nature of the case, inevitable ; but the marvel 

 is that these faults and omissions are so few and far between. To 

 have enabled him to complete his labour Dr. Trouessart must 

 possess patience and industry far above the average, while he has 

 also the technical knowledge of his subject which raises his work to 



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