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The Finns, Lapps, and Eskimos, he teaches, belong to the same 

 race — a surprising piece of information, which can scarcely also 

 be '-assumed." Still more extraordinary is the discovery, which 

 is wholly new and wholly his own, that the colony of Swedes 

 who settled on the Delaware River in the sevi nteenth century 

 were not Swedes at all, but "Swedish Finns," and that they in- 

 troduced among the Pennsylvanian colonists ' ' plainly an infusion 

 of unadulterated Eskimo blood !" (p. 36). This will be a start- 

 ling bit of news to those worthy Philadelphians who take so 

 much pride in their genealogies reaching back before the landing 

 of Penn. 



Seriously, the very slender basis for the whole theory is the 

 syllable ii'w, the same that occurs in "Fenian," "Fingal," etc., 

 and which has evidently started the author in pursuit of this 

 Mongolian ignis fatuus. 



Criminology By Arthue MacDonald. With an Introduction 

 by Dr. Cesare Lombi-oso. New York, Funk & Wagnalls 

 Company. 416 p. 8°. 

 The brief introduction by Dr. Lombroso (only three pages) is a 

 defence of his favorite theory of the criminal " type," by which 

 he means " the organicity of crime, its anatomical nature, and 

 degenerative source." This notion was distinctly rejected by 

 the criminal anthropologists assembled last summer in Brussels, 

 and it is encouraging to note that this fact was not lost on Mr. 

 MacDonald, for he tells us in his preface that " the ' type ' has 

 been considered from the psychological rather than the physical 

 side." Tbis is virtually giving up the position of Lombroso, 

 which, in fact, is no longer defensible. There is absolutely no 

 fixed correlation between anatomical structure and crime, so far 

 as has yet been shown. 



In his text, the author draws largely from well-known writers, 

 as Lombroso, Ferri, and Corre, though he is also by no means 

 deficient in facts from his own observation. He begins with a 

 study of the evolution of crime, proceeds to discuss the physical 



and psychical sides of the criminal, his intelligence, and his asso- 

 ciations. Criminal contagion, hypnotism, and relapse furnish 

 topics for other chapters. Special studies of murder, theft, and 

 meanness follow, and the volume closes with a copious and excel- 

 lent " Bibliography of Crime," and a satisfactory index. The 

 work may be recommended to all who would take up the study 

 of this attractive and practical branch of anthropology. 



Bible Studies. By Henry Ward Beecher. Edited by John R. 



Howard. New York, Fords, Howard, and Hulbert. 438 p. 



8°. $1 50. 

 The Evolution of Christianity. By M. J. Savage. Boston, G. 



H. Ellis. 178 p. 8°. 

 These volumes may appropriately be placed together. Both 

 acknowledge as their main aim the widening of the religious con- 

 cepts of modern Christianity, the teaching a broader, a more 

 liberal, and more charitable construction of the tenets and the 

 dogmas of protesiant theology. 



The " Bible Studies" begins with a chapter on the right under- 

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 of readings and familiar comments upon them, extending from 

 Genesis to Ruth. Beecher's admirable command of the English 

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 and his position as a theologian is familiar to all American read- 

 ers. Many of the passages in this book, however, sounded better 

 than they read; they are in such colloquial style that they look 

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Mr. Savage's notion of the evolution of Christianity is that it 

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 with science, with free investigation and free speech, will cease. 

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