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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SERIES. 



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T/j rf OMAN'S SHARE IN PRIMITIVE CUE 

 VV TURE. By Otis Tufton Mason, A. M., Curator of the 

 Department of Ethnology in the United States National Mu- 

 seum. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 

 "A most interesting resume' oi the revelations which science has made concerning 

 the habits of human beings in primitive times, and especially as to the place, the duties, 

 and the customs of women." '— Philadelphia Inquirer. 



" A highly entertaining and instructive book. . . . Prof. Mason's bright, graceful 

 style must do much to awaken a lively interest in a study that has heretofore received 

 such scant attention." — Baltimore American. 



"The special charm of Mr. Mason's book is that his studies are based mainly upon 

 ctually existing types, rather than upon mere tradition."— Philadelphia Times. 



y^HE PYGMIES. By A. de Quatrefages, late 



•*■ Professor of Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, 

 Paris. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



" Probably no one was better equipped to illustrate the general subject than Quatre- 

 fages. While constantly occupied upon the anatomical and osseous phases of his sub- 

 ject, he was none the less well acquainted with what literature and history had to say 

 concerning the pygmies. . . . This book ought to be in every divinity school in which 

 man as well as God is studied, and from which missionaries go out to convert the human 

 being of reality and not the man of rhetoric and text-books." — Boston Literary World. 



" It is fortunate that American students of anthropology are able to enjoy as lumi- 

 nous a translation of this notable monograph as that which Prof. Starr now submits to the 

 public." — Philadelphia Press. 



" It is regarded by scholars entitled to offer an opinion as one of the half-dozen most 

 important works of an anthropologist whose ethnographic publications numbered nearly 

 one hundred." — Chicago Evening- Post. 



'JTHE BEGINNINGS OF WRITING. By W. J. 



-*■ Hoffman, M. D. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, 



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This interesting book gives a most attractive account of the rude methods employed 

 by primitive man for recording his deeds. The earliest writing consists of pictographs 

 which were traced on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances. Dr. 

 Hoffman shows how the several classes of symbols used in these records are to he in- 

 terpreted, and traces the growth of conventional signs up to syllabaries and alphal»TS— 

 the two classes of signs employed by modern peoples. 



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THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. By Dr. SCHMELT? 



THE ZUNL By Frank Hamilton Cushing. 



THE AZTECS. By Mrs. Zelia Nuttall. 



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