146 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



The Races of Man: an Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography, 

 By J. Deniker, Sc.D. (Paris). Walter Scott, Limited. 



English readers have long been familiar with the writings 

 of French anthropologists. The names of Broca, Topinard, and 

 De Quatrefages are quite household words among those who 

 study the zoology of their own kith and kin, while the present 

 work of Dr. Deniker will further increase our respect for the 

 capacities of anthropologists across the Channel. There is 

 always room for a fresh book on Man; the multitude of subjects 

 that make for his history are truly complicated ; each student 

 and professor is always stronger on his particular specialty 

 than on others; we leave the school of anatomy to study written 

 records ; from the unwritten testimony of prehistoric archaeology 

 we turn to the problems of philology ; the physician and the 

 zoologist compare notes ; one measures the skull, another photo- 

 graphs the features ; the traveller publishes his notes, the 

 missionary gives his experience; the prison, the hospital, and 

 the lunatic asylum alike contribute to our knowledge ; the 

 statistician, the comparative theologian, and the recruiting 

 sergeant all have something to tell, while many a forgotten book 

 contains the only detail of a vanished or vanishing race. Con- 

 sequently to bring the subject up to date is a quest and not a 

 feasibility ; there is always something behind the arras. 



Dr. Deniker in the present volume has added much to our 

 knowledge by referring us to recent work that has been done, and 

 his bibliographical notes are valuable. The general reader may 

 learn much as to races other than savage, even as regards such 

 a familiar being as the Jew. Of these people, contrary to 

 general ideas, only some 250,000 are stated to be found in Asia, 

 and Palestine can only claim about 75,000 in the present day. 

 " Their total number is estimated at eight millions, of which the 

 half is in Russia and Rumania, a third in Germany and Austria, 



