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The Distrihution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and 

 Elseivhere. By A. B. Meyer, M.D., &c. Dresden : 

 Stengel & Co. 



This small book is an English translation of two chapters 

 from Dr. Meyer's great work on the Negritos of the Philippines, 

 and relates to the distribution of this peculiar and ancient race, 

 the real affinities and derivation of which have long puzzled 

 ethnologists and promoted more than one conclusion. The 

 Negritos have been proved to inhabit many of the Philippines, 

 and may possibly be eventually found on the whole of the islands 

 when they are better known and more scientifically visited. The 

 Philippines are, however, certainly the present headquarters 

 of the Negritos. They are also well represented in the Malay 

 Peninsula and the Andaman Islands, but as regards the Malayan 

 Archipelago outside the Philippines, the accounts of their 

 occurrence are considered by Dr. Meyer as " based on very poor 

 evidence (properly speaking on none at all), or are the result of 

 errors in consequence of insufficient criticism of the sources, or 

 misunderstanding of the original statements, which in their turn 

 are frequently unreliable and perverted." 



The results of an exhaustive and critical reading of all that 

 has been written on the subject are given in a very condensed 

 form, in which process such generally considered authorities as 

 De Quatrefages and Hamy are very freely handled. More than 

 two hundred other authors are referred to, and the publication 

 is in the best sense a monograph on the subject. 



The Natural History of Selborne. By Gilbert White. Edited 

 with Notes by Grant Allen. Illustrated by Edmund H. 

 New. John Lane. 



The recent death of Mr. Grant Allen gives a melancholy 

 interest to the last edition of our old classic. Each edition has 

 its specialty ; sometimes the editorial notes on the natural 

 history topics treated of by White are almost a host in them- 

 selves ; at other times the illustrations or general " get-up " is 

 the inducement to procure another copy of the book we all 



