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book, but has succeeded in making even the enumeration of speci- 
mens lend its aid to the elucidation of the facts and theories he 
brings to our n otice 
‘Flint Chips’ is primarily a yp arranged Catalogue of the 
Blackmore Museum at Salisbury; but it is something more than 
this, for the author has appended to each subdivision of the sections 
that comprise the collection a carefully written digest of all the 
various subjects connected with their actual and a ssumed history. 
ox the ** Bone-caves " and Peat of various parts of Europe, is pre- 
faced by a description of the habits and Ru amc of the mam- 
mals whose relics fill the museum-cases referred to at the end of the 
chapter. 
The enumeration of the durare remains from the Lake-dwel- 
lings of Switzerland and elsew is furnished with a description 
not merely of the locale and the pide under which the dis- 
coveries were made, but also with a careful account of the actual 
position of each series of articles in the “ Relic-bed,” and their proba- 
ble uses and eg cum But it is regarding the relics of the “ Stone 
ge," in w e Blackmore Museum is especially rich, that ihe 
author has eod mie prolific of information, and has brought pro- 
traces of human life and human labour (the lesson of the gradual 
development and progress of our race), which day by day are be- 
coming more closely examined and appreciated, as furnishing those 
links in the history of the world with sies the ages before historic 
times have otherwise failed to furnish u 
The “ Palzolithic” period of the “ eem Age," that in which the 
implements were produced by primary fracture of the rock-masses, 
and a further completion into certain definite forms by chipping, 
datos far back m the pasie era; and the types, few in nnum- 
ber, comprise, one m arrow-heads, and rou h shoe- 
-by the lower classes instead of knives, even at the present eue 
pointed out; and carefully collated extracts from various authors 
