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ful, and conscientious. Jackson's faults and 

 autocratic acts are not concealed, Avhile his 

 sterling qualities and remarkable achieve- 

 ments are set forth in due prominence. The 

 account of Jackson's campaign in defense of 

 New Orleans is given large space in the vol- 

 ume. It is told with much vivid detail, and 

 has the fascination of a tale of brave and 

 forceful deeds, which it is. This book is 

 notable, too, as being the last literary labor 

 of its author, who passed away two months 

 after it was completed. 



The series is to be continued with lives 

 of Washington, Greene, Sherman, Grant, 

 Lee, and many others. 



THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS OP THE ANGLO-SAX- 

 ONS. By the Baron J. DE BATE. Trans- 

 lated by T. B. HARBOTTLE. London : 

 Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. New York : 

 Macmillan & Co. 1893. Pp. 135, 4to. 

 Price, $7. 



THIS work, which is illustrated with thir- 

 ty-one cuts in the text and seventeen full- 

 page engravings, although of considerable 

 value to archaeological students, does not 

 shed much ethnographic light. As a mat- 

 ter of fact, all attempts at an arrangement 

 of antique arts and industries must to a cer- 

 tain extent be arbitrary and artificial, as 

 chronological classification can not be fully 

 carried out in the present condition of ar- 

 chaeological research. Baron de Baye claims 

 that the Jutes occupy the first place, chrono- 

 logically, among the invading barbarians of 

 Great Britain. The Saxons and Angles fol- 

 lowed soon afterward, and, according to the 

 author, they all settled in Kent, in which 

 county the most perfect archaeological speci- 

 mens of the ancient Anglo-Saxon industries 

 are found. The baron uses Eutropius, 

 Ptolemy, and Tacitus very freely in his 

 proofs of the German ancestry of the early 

 Britons ; but it is an incontestable fact that 

 long before the advent of the Anglo-Saxon 

 barbarians, the Kelts, who were settled in 

 Ireland, had made incursions into England. 

 The archaeological specimens of Anglo-Saxon 

 industries which are illustrated in the beau- 

 tiful volume we have under observation 

 clearly resemble the accepted evidences of 

 an earlier industrial condition among the 

 Irish Kelts, and, more distinctly than the 

 authorities quoted by Baron de Baye, assert 

 their parentage as Keltic and not Germanic. 



Apart from this too frequent error of 

 the ethnographer, the author has compiled a 

 very valuable addition to the archaeological 

 literature of England. The chapters on 

 Anglo-Saxon fibulae are not alone interest- 

 ing but important, although they stamp the 

 evidence of origin as Scandinavian rather 

 than German. In these chapters the author 

 proves with tolerable clearness an archaeo- 

 logical point which has occupied the atten- 

 tion of savants for centuries, for he shows 

 that the fibulae which have been discovered 

 in Kent and the Isle of Wight are of conti- 

 nental origin, and precisely similar in con- 

 struction to the ornaments of Gothic manu- 

 facture which have been found in the bar- 

 barian cemeteries of the continent. This dis- 

 covery at once establishes a proof of niter- 

 course, and illustrates the artistic influence 

 exerted over that part of Britain which was 

 near to France ; while in other parts of the 

 work we have, upon comparison with the 

 catalogue of the Museum of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, distinct evidences of a Keltic ori- 

 gin for the industrial arts of the early Brit- 

 ons. 



The author's analysis of the uses of the 

 beads and crystal balls which have been 

 found in the graves of the Anglo-Saxons is 

 very interesting. In Nenia Britannica it is 

 claimed that they were used for occult pur- 

 poses, whereas Mr. Roach Smith is of opin- 

 ion that " all the objects exhumed are ca- 

 pable of a perfectly simple explanation." 

 Baron de Baye, however, asserts with some- 

 what of authority that they were used as 

 talismans against sickness and " to neutral- 

 ize the force of the enemy's blows." The 

 work is excellently printed and got up, and 

 the plates and references will be found to 

 be of exceeding interest to ethnographical 

 students. 



FAITH-HEALING, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, AND KIN- 

 DRED PHENOMENA. By J. M. BUCKLEY, 

 LL. D. New York: The Century Com- 

 pany. Pp. 308. 



BESIDES the subjects named in the title, 

 those of Astrology, Divination, and Coinci- 

 dences; Dreams, Nightmare, and Somnam- 

 bulism ; Presentiments, Visions, and Appari- 

 tions ; and Witchcraft, are treated of in this 

 volume. In his discussions the author has 

 adopted certain principles as working laws, 



