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life history and habits of many of the monkeys and their enemies. 

 The photographs add to the value of the book. One cannot help 

 but wish that the author's viewpoint could have been mamtained 

 without introducing so much questionable philosophizing on the 

 part of the monkey people, who are telling their adventures. 

 Thus, on page 138, a blue ape remarks, "You see, we lead a 

 healthy out-of-door life, and we don't smoke and breathe badi 

 air and eat rich food all day long, like you humanfolk do ; so our 

 blood is always pure, and our bodies are strong, so when we get 

 wounded we recover very quickly." Again, on page 141, another 

 blue ape criticises our human relations thus, "True, we gratify 

 our various instincts, but we always do so in strict moderation. 

 With all your boasted knowledge and wisdom a very great num- 

 ber of you are abject slaves to your animal instincts, which, with 

 abuse, have grown abnormal," and later expresses its dream of 

 immortality in the following language: 



'T have now lived for three years and a half a lonely, miser- 

 able exile. I feel the time is not far distant when I shall depart 

 this life to go to the happy hunting-grounds of my folk, in the 

 realms of the spirit world." 



The book lacks an index, which would add to the value of 

 it. I was anxious to find if the author had made any observations 

 on the language of the monkey folk, but could not find out until 

 the entire book was read. 



