20S EEYIEWS — INDIGENOUS KACES OE THE EAETH. 



In addition to the varied contents, thus summarily noticed, there is 

 also a useful department, embracing the principal Scientific and 

 Literary Associations of the province, which already begin to assume 

 a very creditable aspect. Unpretending as this work is, it will be 

 valuable to the historian of Canada, hereafter, when the harvest of 

 this good seed-time is beginning to be reaped. We wish the 

 work all success, and hope to see it established as a regular annual 

 publication, improving yearly with the progress it records. 



D. W. 



Indigenous Races of the Earth ; or new chapters of Ethnological 

 Inquiry ; including Monographs on special departments of 

 Philology, Iconography, Cranioscopy, Palaeontology, Pathology, 

 Archaeology, Comparative Geography, and Natural History ; con- 

 tributed by Alfred Maury, Bibliothecaire de VInstitut de Erance, 

 &c. C&5.J Francis Pulszhy, of Lubocz and G self alva, Fellow of the 

 Hungarian Academy, &c. &c, and J. Aitlcin Meigs, M. D., Pro- 

 fessor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Philadelphia College of 

 Medicine, &c. &c, ; presenting fresh investigations, documents, and 

 materials. By J. C. Nott, M.D., and Geo. E,. Grliddon, authors 

 of " Types of Mankind" Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 

 1857. 



Such is the title, in a greatly condensed form, of the new work by 

 the authors of the " Types of Mankind ;" wherein they have carried 

 out still further even, than in their former joint production, 

 the cooperative system, applied of old so effectively in a 

 very different branch of English literature ; when Shakespeare, 

 Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger, conjointly produced 

 works which defy the modern critic to apportion to each the product 

 of his gifted pen. No such homogenous character, however, marks 

 the modern literary edifice. Bach independent labourer carves his 

 own masonry, inscribes it with his mark, and places it, finished, at the 

 disposal of the master-builder, to be harmonised as chance or fortune 

 shall direct, with the stones that are ready to be built with it into 

 the superstructure. The coherence in fact, is little more than such 

 as pertains to the various independent articles which go to make up 

 a cyclopaedia, where absolute concurrence in opinions, or even 

 in statement of facts, is not indispensable ; while the whole makes 



