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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Now Ready, in 1 vol., 8vo., pp. 400, price 16s., cloth, 



Waltz's Introduction to Anthropology. 

 Edited, from the FIRST VOLUME of Anthropologie der Naturvdlker, by 

 J. FREDERICK COLLINGWOOD, F.R.S.L., F.G.S., F.A.S.L., Foreign Associate 

 of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Honorary Secretary of the Anthro- 

 pological Society of London. 



Extract of a Letter from the Author to the Editor. 



" I have received your translation of the first volume of my ' Anthropologie der 

 Naturvdlker,' and hasten to return you my heartfelt thanks for the great care and 

 assiduity which you have bestowed on the task. I am fully cognisant of the 

 great difficulties you have to contend with, especially as my style, as alluded to 

 in your preface, possesses many peculiarities, so that even German men of 

 science consider the reading of my books rather hard work. All these difficulties 

 you have surmounted with the greatest skill, so as to render my work, as it 

 appears to me, into very pleasing, readable English." 



OPINIONS OF THE PEESS. 



"A more felicitous selection could not, 

 we conceive, by any possibility have been 

 made than the very one which has re- 

 sulted in the publication of the book 

 lying bofore us. For within the com- 

 pass of the first volume of Dr. Waitz's 

 Anthropologie der Naturvolker is com- 

 pacted together the most comprehen- 

 sive and exhaustive survey of the new 

 science yet contributed, we believe, in 

 any tongue to European literature. To 

 the English public generally, however, 

 it is a book almost unknown, saving and 

 excepting alone by reputation. Al- 

 though merely a translation from the 

 German, therefore, the work is virtually, 

 if not an original work, a perfectly new 

 work to the mass of readers in this 

 country. So far as this same rapidly 

 executed work of translation can be 

 compared and collated with the original, 

 it appears to be a version singularly 

 faithful and accurate. . . . The book, as it 

 now appears, is a work of especial value, 

 and also one of very peculiar interest. 

 It thoroughly fulfils its design of afford- 

 ing the reader of it, within a single 

 volume, the very - best epitome any- 

 where to be found of what is the actual 

 'present state' of anthropological sci- 

 ence in Christendom. Dr. \Vaitz takes 

 a far wider range within his ken than 

 Prichard and Nott and Gliddon com 

 bined." The Sun, Dec. 14, 18C3. 



" The volume in every page exhibits 

 great research ; it abounds with inter- 

 esting speculation, all tending the right 

 way, and the information it presents is 

 happily conveyed in a popular manner." 

 Morning Advertiser, Nov. 16, 1863. 



" So comprehensive is the view taken 

 by the author of all that pertains to 

 man.thatamereenumeration even of the 

 leading topics of the work is beyond 

 our space, and we must content our- 

 selves with recommending its perusal to 

 such of our readers as are interested in 

 the subject, with the assurance that it 

 will well repay the trouble." Weekly 

 Dispatch, Nov. 29, 1863. 



" This handsomely printed volume 

 discusses at great length and with 

 much ability the question as to the races 

 of man. ... At the hands of Dr. Waitz it 

 has met with calm consideration, and in 

 its English dress will prove both inter- 

 esting and instructive. It displays 

 great research, and contains a large ex- 

 tent of highly interesting matter." 

 Liverpool Albion, Nov. 9, 1863. 



" From such a bill of fare, our readers 

 will be able to judge that the work is 

 one of value and interest. ... It is of 

 the nature of a review, arriving at a 

 comprehensive and proportional esti- 

 mate, rather than at minute accuracy 

 of detail, such as may be sought else- 

 where in each department." Medical 

 Times, Dec. 26, 1863. 



" Crammed as full of hard facts as 

 wellnigh 400 pages of large 8vo. can 

 contain ; all these facts attested by foot- 

 note authorities marshalled knee-deep 

 at the bottom of every page ; with a list 

 of contents so copious as to eclipse 

 everything of the kind in any recent 

 scientific volume, and yet followed by 

 an index more minute and ample ; this 

 work is a magazine of the infant science 

 of Man ; a model of German industry, 



