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The Development of Marriage 

 and Kinship. 



BY C STANILAND WAKE, 

 AUTHOR OF "SERPENT WORSHIP," ETC. 



CONTENTS: Preface. Introduction Sexual Morality. Chapter I. Primeval Man. 

 II. Supposed Promiscuity. III. Primitive Law of Marriage. IV. Group Marriage. V. 

 Polyandry. VI. Polygyny. VII. Monandry. VIII. The Rule of Descent. IX. Kin- 

 ship through Females. X. Kinship through Males. XI. Marriage by Capture. XII. 

 Monogamy. 



" The volume is a closely reasoned argument on a complicated and 

 interesting subject, and will add to the reputation Mr Wake has already 

 earned by his writings on anthropology. Portions of it have, we think, 

 already appeared in English and foreign scientific journals and transactions, 

 and this leads here and there to some repetition ; but the work in its present 

 form is consecutive and well arranged. It is easier reading than some earlier 

 books on the same subject. . . . Mr Wake concludes his study of these 

 difficult, but interesting questions by a chapter on modern civilized systems of 

 monogamy; and on Christian ideas relating to marriage and celibacy." The 

 Athemeum. 



"On the very complicated and unintelligible Australian marriage laws Mr 

 Wake is well worth reading." Saturday Review. 



' ' A fund of valuable information in regard to savage usages all over the 

 world. . . . Mr Wake gives a useful summary of the valuable investigation 

 conducted by Mr Lorimer Fison and Mr Howett into the Australian system 

 of group-marriage." Literary World. 



" The supply of facts being so meagre, it is as a handsome contribution to 

 those in regard to marriage and kinship that Mr Wake's present book is 

 chiefly valuable. We say chiefly, because his deductions, to which the book 

 naturally owes its interest, are given so guardedly and candidly, and with such 

 full recognition of the necessity of further knowledge as to open the door to 

 further inquiry rather than close it, as theories too often tend to do." 

 Scots Observer. 



" Brimful of curious information ; a work that all interested in genealogical 

 questions will welcome, and which such as are not specialists will find much 

 pleasure in studying." REV. C. H. EVELYN WHITE in The East Anglian 

 or Notes and Queries, &*c. 



" We shall not pretend to decide upon the correctness of any par- 

 ticular theory ; but there need be no hesitation in saying that this work, 

 in which sexual relations are considered in all their different forms of poly- 

 andry, polygyny, monandry, and monogamy, and the curious group mar- 

 riages of the Australian aborigines and the Hawaiians, gives ample evidence 

 that the author has made a thorough study of the subject in the light of 

 the most recent researches, and has spared no pains in the collection of 

 facts. His work is certainly a valuable contribution to the study of a very 

 interesting and important subject." Scotsman. 



" Regarded as a mere storehouse of curious information as to the mar- 

 riage customs which have at different times prevailed among different races, 

 there is a great deal which is interesting in the volume before us." John 

 Bull. 



