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been translated into fourteen distinct tongnes. His three works 

 on Love — Physiology, Hygiene, and Ethnology — have sold by 

 thousands in Germany and France. Perhaps the only one of his 

 more important works which has appeared in America is his 

 Fisionomia e Mimica — Physiognomy and Expression. This has 

 been issued in at least two forms within the last three years and 

 has sold largely. Although we have already referred to it briefly, 

 it deserves especial mention. It is an excellent example of Mante- 

 gazza's nervous, impetuous style. Nothing that has been written 

 elsewhere upon expression can approach it. Every great emotion 

 of mankind is taken up, and the form of expression by which it 

 makes itself known is exhaustively analyzed. The subject itself 

 is so attractive and the treatment so interesting that the book — 

 unlike most scientific books — will bear reading and re-reading for 

 pleasure. No one but an Italian could have written it. Expres- 

 sion is at its best where the blood is hot and vigorous, and where 

 people feel as they live ; in such a country as Italy, and among a 

 people like the Italians, only could such a study be so well made. 



Analysis is the word which describes all of Mantegazza's work. 

 Analysis shows itself in his writings ; it shows itself also in his 

 museum, one of the most remarkable in the world. It is the 

 National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology. Fair in eth- 

 nography, good in general anthropology, it is remarkable in 

 somatology, and unique in psychology. Who but the writer of 

 Fisionomia e Mimica could analyze so cleverly the material in 

 Physical Anthropology ? Who but so good an analyst could fail 

 so utterly in combining the material into a symmetrical whole ? 

 Mantegazza's Museum of Psychological Anthropology is his latest 

 hobby. Here he plans to show by material objects the operations 

 of the mind — the development of religiosity, the expression of 

 love, of fear, of cruelty — of every emotion of our kind. 



As an editor Mantegazza has done vast service. His Archivio 

 per l'Antropologia e la Etnologia is a standard journal in the 

 science, but of course reaches only a select circle of fellow-workers. 

 The Hygienic Almanacs, however, which have appeared under his 

 direction for a quarter of a century, in editions of many thou- 

 sands, have not only done much to improve sanitary conditions 

 among his own people, but in their German and Hebrew transla- 

 tions have reached thousands outside of the land of his birth. 

 While speaking of this service, we may mention that Mante- 

 gazza's contributions to medicine have been neither few nor unim- 

 portant. It was he who introduced coca into Europe, and his 

 monograph upon this valuable plant was " crowned." 



Mantegazza is to visit America in September, and it is to be 

 hoped that he may meet that hearty kindness from us which he 

 has always extended to American men of science in Italy. 



