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of human cross-breeds. Professor K. Pearson published 

 a short paper on the colour of crosses between negro and 

 white in Btmetnka, vol. vi, 1909, pp. 348 sqq., and a-study 

 of Franco-Tonkinese crosses was published by Bonifacy 

 in the Bui. Mem. Soc. d'Anthropologie, Paris, series 6, 

 vol. i, 1910, pp. 607 sqq. The Germans before the war 

 also devoted some attention to the question in their 

 colonies in S.W. Africa. In the United States, the litera- 

 ture on the colour question deals with this point on the 

 basis of impression rather than accurate observation, and 

 is not unaffected by prejudices on one side or the other. 

 Dr. Hrdlicka, of the Bureau of Ethnology', was requested 

 by the Government some years ago to examine anthropo- 

 logically claimants to reservation lands on the ground 

 of Indian descent, but I am not aware how far his 

 investigations w-ent or whether the results were pub- 

 lished. — E. N. Fallaize.] 



Books Received 



(Mention in this column does not preclude a review.) 

 ANTHROPOLOGY 



Ancient Tales from Many Lands. A Collection of Folk 

 Stories. By R. H. Fleming, With Introduction by 

 Prof. H. J. Fleure. Illustrated. (Benn Brothers, 

 Ltd., 10.S. €>d.) 



On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. Experiences and 

 Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa. By 

 Prof. Albert Schweitzer. Translated by Ch. 

 Th. Campion. Illustrated. (A. and C. Black, Ltd., 

 65.) 



SCIENCE 



Indian Science Congress Handbook. 

 Indian Science Congress, Jan. 

 Madras Diocesan Press.) 



(Printed for Ninth 

 -Feb. 1922, by the 



Organic Chemistry. By Victor von Richter. Vol. ii. 

 Chemistry of the Carbocyclic Compounds. Translated 

 by E. E. Fournier D'Albe, D.Sc, etc. (Kegan 

 Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 35s.) 



A Course of Practical Organic Chemistry. By T. Slater 

 Price, D.Sc, Ph.D., and Douglas F. Twiss, D.Sc, 

 F.I.C. 3rd Edition. (Longmans, Green & Co., 

 65. 6d.) 

 A new edition of a useful laboratory manual. 



Cassell's Library of Applied Science. Edited by George 

 Thompson and George H. Leslie, B.Sc. Chemistry , 

 Part I, 25. ; Heat, Part i, 25. 



These books are " popular "' in a good sense, intelli- 

 gently and interestingly written and well illustrated. 

 They contain little theory and no experimental work, and 

 so are intended, not for the school-boy or student who 

 wishes to pass examinations in these subjects, but for the 

 intelligent reader whose main interests and studies lie 

 elsewhere. They give final results, and describe how all 

 the most interesting things in life work, are done, or are 

 manufactured. 



An Introduction to Engineering Drawing. By J. Duncan, 

 M.I.Mech.E. (Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 45.) 



A new volume in the Life and Work Series of textbooks 

 published to meet the needs of advanced study in elemen- 

 tary schools demanded by the Education Act of 1918. 



POLITICS AND ECONOMICS 



A Revision of the Treaty. By John Maynard Keynes, 



C.B. (Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 7s. 6d.) 

 Common-sense Economics. By L. Le Mesurier. (John 



Murray, 6s.) 

 The New World. Problems in Political Geography. By 



Isaiah Bowman, Ph.D. Illustrated. (George G. 



Harrap & Co., Ltd., 21s.) 



PSYCHOLOGY 



Disguises of Love. By Dr. W. Stekel. Translated by 



Rosalie Gabler. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & 



Co., Ltd., 65. 6d.) 

 Instinct and the Unconscious. By W. H. R. Rivers, M.D., 



etc. 2nd Edition. (Cambridge University Press, 



i6s.) 

 The Technique of Psycho-analysis. By David Forsyth, 



M.D., etc. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 



Ltd, 55.) 

 The Evolution of Consciousness. By A. Wyatt Tilby. 



(T. Fisher Uutoh, Ltd., 15s.) 



Diet and Race. Anthropological Essays. By F. P. 

 Armitage, M.A. (Longmans, Green & Co., js. 6d.) 



Tliree essays — on Diet and Physique, Diet and Colour, 

 and Diet and Cranial Form — by the Director of Education 

 for Leicester. In the second essay the author advances 

 the view that the presence of common salt in the blood 

 retards or prevents the deposit of pigment. 



Relativity for All. By Herbert Dingle, B.Sc. 

 (Methuen, 2S.) 



But relativity is riot for all. Mr. Dingle's exposition is 

 short and clear, and the book is cheap, but better for those 

 able to follow it are the fuller and more general accounts 

 given in Einstein's own book, and in one edited by Mr. 

 Bird of the Scientific American. 



The author of New Light on the Silver Age of Hellas, which 

 appeared in the January number, requests us to state that 

 the name of Menander's play at the bottom of the first 

 column, p. 9, should have been given by him as The 

 Arbitrants. 



