CONTENTS 



Professor of Biology in Oxford University, joint-editor of The Annals of Botany 

 and of Science Progress 139 



"Physical Anthropology": by W. L. H. DUCKWORTH, M.A., M.D., D.Sc., Lec- 

 turer in Physical Anthropology and Senior Demonstrator in Human Anatomy, 

 Cambridge University, author of Morphology and Anthropology, etc. . . 147 



"Cultural Anthropology": by ROBERT RANULF MARETT, M.A., Reader in Social 

 Anthropology, Oxford University, organising secretary of the International 

 Congress of Anthropological Societies, author of The Threshold of Religion, 

 etc .. trr: . r : ... r :. .. : . 155 



"Philology": 



"The Austric Family of Languages": by CHARLES OTTO BLAGDEN, M.A., 

 M.R.A.S., F. R.A.I., member of Council of Royal Asiatic Society, 1910, 

 Examiner in Malay to University of London, 1911, joint author (with Prof. 

 W. \V. Skeat) of Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, etc 162 



"Medicine": by STEPHEN PAGET, F.R.C.S., Hon. Secretary of the Research 

 Defence Society, London, Surgeon to the Throat & Ear Department, Middle- 

 sex Hospital, author of Experiments on Animals, Chronicles of the Royal 

 Medical and Chirurgical Society, etc 165 



"Dentistry": by EDWARD CAMERON KIRK, D.Sc., Professor of Dental Pathology 



and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, editor of The Dental Cosmos. . 179 



"Osteopathy": by G- W. RILEY, Ph.B., D.O., member American Osteopathic 

 Association, Ex-President New York State and City Osteopathic Societies, 

 Chairman of Council of A. T. Still Research Institute, Chicago .''... .t. ;..'!! J ^ 2 



SECTION III. ART AND LITERATURE: 



"English Literature": by THOMAS SECCOMBE, M.A., Professor of English, R.M.C., 

 Sandhurst, Lecturer in History, East London College, 1907-12, assistant 

 editor Dictionary of National Biography, 1891-1901, author of The Age of 

 Johnson, Bookman History of English Literature, etc 186 



"Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Drama": by EDMUND KERCHEVER CHAMBERS, 

 C.B., Principal Assistant secretary, Board of Education, London, author of 

 The Medieval Stage, editor of the Red Letter Shakespeare, etc 193 



"Australian Literature": by FRANK Fox, formerly editor of the Sydney Bulletin 196 



"English Canadian Literature": by LAWRENCE JOHNSTON BURPEE, F.R.G.S., 

 F.R.S.C., formerly Librarian of the Ottawa Public Library, author of Bibliog- 

 raphy of Canadian Fiction, Dictionary of Canadian History, Canadian Essays, 

 Canadian Life in Town and Country, etc 197 



"French-Canadian Literature" : by LIEUT. COL. WILLIAM WOOD, D.C.L., F.R.S.C., 

 formerly President of English Section of Royal Society of Canada and of His- 

 toric Landmarks Association, author of The Fight for Canada, The Logs of 

 the Conquest of Canada, etc. 198 



"American Literature": by HENRY WALCOTT BOYNTON, author of Life of Wash- 

 ington Irving, Bret Harte, A Reader's History of American Literature (with T. 

 W. Higginson), etc . 199 



"French Literature": by MADAME DUCLAUX (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson), 



author of Grands Ecrivains d' Outre- Manche , La Reine de Navarre, etc. . . 201 



"German Literature": by PROFESSOR JOHN GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.A., PH,D., 

 Professor of German in University of London, author of History of German 

 Literature, etc ' :' : :' '205 



"Italian Literature": by LUIGI VILLARI, author of Italian Life in Town and 



Country, etc., Italian vice-consul in New Orleans, 1906, and Philadelphia, 1907 208 



"Dutch Literature": by HENRI ZONDERVAN, editor-in-chief of Winkler Pnns' 

 Encyclopaedia, author of Nederland buiten Europa, Insulinde in Woord en 

 Beeld, etc . . . . . 209 



"Belgian Literature": by MADAME LALLA VANDERVELDE, secretary of the 



I nstitut des Hautes Etudes of the Universite Nouvelle, Brussels . . . . 211 



"Danish Literature": by WILLIAM RENTON PRIOR, B.A., Member of the Danish 

 Historical Society, Corresponding Member of the Royal Danish Geographical 

 Society, London correspondent of the Berlirske Tidende, Copenhagen . . 212 



"Norwegian Literature": by SIMON CHRISTIAN HAMMER, M.A., author of Boer- 

 krigens Historic, Georg Slang, etc., Christiania correspondent of La Gazette de 

 Hollande -.-- '' 214 



"Spanish Literature": by BALDOMERO SANIN CANO, Graduate Professor of 

 Colombia, under-secretary of finance in Colombia, 1905-08, editor of the 

 Revista Contemporanea (Bogota) 215 



"Portuguese Literature": by EDGAR PRESTAGE, Lecturer in Portuguese literature 

 in Manchester University, Corresponding member of Lisbon Royal Academy of 



