LITERARY NOTICES. 



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MacDonald, missionary at Havannah Har- 

 bor, New Hebrides, presents a study of Poly- 

 nesian languages and mythology. Though 

 such studies must be for the present chiefly 

 tentative, it is hardly possible to speak too 

 highly of their value as aids in the investi- 

 gation of the origins and migrations of the 

 human races. The author of this study 

 makes a critical and comparative analysis of 

 a number of Oceanic dialects, and deduces 

 the conclusion, from certain identities among 

 them, that they all sprang from one inflec- 

 tional mother-tongue, and this was a branch 

 of the Shemitic family. 



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