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ian Institution, of some peculiar rites studied by him while living with the Zuni 

 Indians of New Mexico, entitled "Zuni Fetiches; " one by Mrs. Erminnie A. 

 Smith, entitled " Myths of the Iroquois;" a third by H. W. Henshaw upon 

 " Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi River;" "Navajo Silver- 

 smiths," by Washington Matthews; "Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans," 

 by Wm. H. Holmes; "Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections obtained from 

 the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879 ^.nd 1880," by James Steven- 

 son. 



All of these articles are written by persons who have given careful and criti- 

 cal study to their respective subjects and most of them are very copiously illus- 

 trated in the handsomest manner. 



The investigations of the Bureau have been conducted systematically and 

 the object has been the definite and logical study of arts, institutions, languages, 

 and opinions, each depending upon, and to some extent inseparable from, the 

 other. As Major Powell well puts it, "The study of the arts is but the collec- 

 tion of curiosities unless the relations between arts, institutions, language and 

 opinions are discovered. The study of institutions leads but to the discovery of 

 curious habits and customs unless the deeper meaning thereof is discovered from 

 arts, languages and opinions. In like manner the study of words unless philo- 

 logic research is based upon a knowledge of arts, institutions and opinions. 

 So also the study of opinions is but the collection of mythic stories if their true 

 meaning is not ascertained in the history of arts, institutions and languages." 



With this view of the subject properly understood, the student of ethnology 

 will not long be regarded by the average person as a mere collector of old pot- 

 tery, arrow-heads and musty bones, but will soon come to occupy his proper place 

 among scientists. 



Travels on Faith from Tradition to Reason : By Robt. C. Adams. i2mo., 

 pp. 238. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1884. For sale by M. H. 

 Dickinson. 



This handsomely printed volume is devoted to an account of the writer's 

 experiences in passing from a supposed religious state, through all the phases of 

 doubt and unsettlement, to that of rank infidelity. He is the son of a Presby- 

 terian minister and was brought up by a Christian mother, being taught, as all 

 New England children were in those days, the stern theology of the "shorter 

 catechism" and other Calvinistic doctrines. With such a foundation it is surpris- 

 ing how soon he began to doubt, and more surpsising upon what meagre quibbles 

 his doubts depended. He became a sea captain and having much leisure time 

 on his hands, devoted it to studying the Bible and theological books. He at- 

 tended church when on land, and apparently earnestly sought to be a Christian 

 and lead a Christian life. Nevertheless his hold upon religion was too slight to 

 bind him and he drifted farther and farther from the teachings of his youth until 

 he actually became a "pagan" of the Bob Ingersoll type, satisfied with being 



