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larger than a pea may be worth $40. Each 

 stone is separately and accurately appraised. 

 The second-class material, Barhhaneh, is sold 

 by weight, bringing at the mines from $25 a 

 pound for the poorer quality, up to $450 for 

 the best quality. The third class, Arahi, is 

 only utilized in Asia, for inlaying, incrusta- 

 tion, and so forth, a lot of twelve pounds once 

 bringing only $300. In the United States a 

 mine in the Cerrillos district, New Mexico, is 

 believed to have produced more fine turquoises 

 than any other deposit, the finest specimens 

 being only equalled by some from the Burro 

 Mountains in the same state, and from Nevada. 



Within the narrow limits of this notice we 

 can only touch upon a few points suggesting 

 the wealth of carefully selected and excellently 

 arranged material that Dr. Pogue has so inde- 

 fatigably assembled here. For ethnologists 

 and students of folklore, the chapter on the 

 mythologic and talismanic fancies connected 

 with this " celestial stone " among many differ- 

 ent peoples, will prove especially interesting 

 and instructive. The many plates are well 

 selected to illustrate the subject and are 

 clearly and effectively printed. 



Certainly no one who acquires this book will 

 fail to find it all, or more than all, that he ex- 

 pected, and we think that the thanks of those 

 interested in the subject are due to the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences and to the schol- 

 arly author, for having thus enriched our 

 precious-stone literature. 



It is very rarely that all the citations re- 

 lating to a given subject are quoted in extenso, 

 giving the exact and full reference. To the 

 student and scientific worker this is of inesti- 

 mable value, because frequently when only 

 partial quotations are made, and the references 

 are even inaccurate, much time is consumed 

 in searching for an item which it is almost im- 

 possible to locate. What a great assistance it 

 is, particularly to delvers in scientific fields, 

 when, without loss of time in going from one 

 library to another, all the data on a certain 

 subject are found under one cover and imme- 

 diately at hand. This has been made possible 

 through the far-sighted policy of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, and is especially exem- 



plified in their publication, Volume 13, a cata- 

 logue of the Meteorites of North America, dated 

 January 1, 1909, by Oliver Cummings Harring- 

 ton. These two memoirs, in the presentation 

 of their rich references with the deductions of 

 experienced workers, are noteworthy contribu- 

 tions to two subjects, than which there is 

 probably none of greater interest to the archeol- 

 ogist, petrologist, chemist, student and gen- 

 eral worker. 



George F. Kunz 



The Mythology of All Races. In thirteen 

 volumes. North American. By Hartley 

 Burr Alexander, Ph.D., Professor of Phi- 

 losophy, University of Nebraska. Volume X. 

 Marshall Jones Company, Boston, Mass. 

 1916. Pp. 325, 23 full page and 2 text illus- 

 trations, linguistic map, 45 pp. Notes, 11 

 pp. Bibliography, authorities used. 

 Volume X. is one of the two volumes re- 

 cently published of a series, the purpose of 

 which, as stated by the editor, Dr. Louis Her- 

 bert Gray (Vol. I., p. xii), is to assemble " into 

 a single unit " the mythologies of all races 

 and " since the series is an organic unit — not a 

 chance collection of monographs — -the mythol- 

 ogy of an individual race is seen to form a co- 

 herent part of mythology." 



With this plan before him, Professor Alex- 

 ander in Volume X. has not presented a col- 

 lection of mythic stories drawn from a con- 

 tinent of varied aspects and conditions, but 

 has aimed to show, as far as present knowledge 

 will permit, the contribution that North Amer- 

 ica can offer to a world study of mythology. 

 In the preface, he says of his subject : " The 

 literature, already very great, is being aug- 

 mented at a rate hitherto unequaled, and it is 

 needless to say that this fact alone renders 

 any general analysis at present provisional. 

 As far as possible the author has endeavored 

 to confine himself to a descriptive study and 

 to base this study upon regional divisions." 



The territory and the peoples of America 

 north of Mexico he divides into seven regions: 

 (1) The Far North, (2) The Forest Tribes, 

 (3) The Gulf Eegion, (4) The Great Plains, 

 (5) Mountain and Desert, (6) The Pueblo 



