CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



OUR FOUR-HANDED RELATIVES. 



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Human Affinities — A Biological Problem — Nose-Apes — The Fore- 

 head-Criterion — Delusive Symptoms — The Wanderoo — A Man and 

 Brother — The Medicean Paragon — Curious Analogies — Scratching 

 and Striking Arguments — Monkey- Habits— The Marvels of the 

 Brain — Singular Contrasts — Untamabl e Brutes— Amativeness — The 

 Spider-Monkey — African Baboons — A Bold Marauder — Superhu- 

 man Fists — A Vegetarian Argument — Capuchin-Monkeys — The 

 Ne Plus Ultra of Cowardice— Obstreperous Passengers — Frederick 

 Gerstaecker's Expedient — Dwarf Monkeys — Midas Rosalia — The 

 Moor-Ape — Total Depravity — A Farmers' Pest — Monos de Ca- 

 dena — The Genius of Mischief — A Fatal Oversight — Platonic 

 Homunculi — The Pet of Cartagena — Reasoning Capacities — Dogs 

 and Monkeys — A Four-handed Buddhist — Nest-building Animals — 

 Strange Bedfellows — A Picnic Adventure — Lesser Evils — A Prac- 

 tical Physiognomist — Defying the Landlord — The Macacus Rad- 

 iatus — Self-Reliance — The Scale of Intelligence — Curiosity — The 

 Secret of Epaminondas — An International Language — The Red 

 Howler — Treetop Serenades — The Science of Tucbeer — Anthro- 

 poid Apes — Pansy's Stratagem — Love at First Sight — The Advan- 

 tages of Circumspection — The Javanese Manki — Mind vs. Matter — 

 A Casus Belli — Victorious Impudence — Yielding under Protest 

 — Esprit de Corps — A Self-Asserting Pet — Catching a Tartar — 

 Captain Hess — Salto Mortale — Freebooters — The Patron Saint of 



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