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has not been changed, is perfectly expressed in the title : a com- 

 parison of the hunters of the past with those of the present. The 

 most ancient hunters are contrasted with the recently extinct 

 Tasmanians, the Mousterians with the living Australian aborigines, 

 the Aurignacians with the Bushmen, and the Magdalenians with 

 the Eskimo. The comparisons are often carried so far however 

 as to obscure the real merits of the work in the field of 

 prehistory. 



The industrial evolution of the last three phases that are dis- 

 tinctly paleolithic is well outlined, including the appearance of 

 new types of stone implements and the use of materials other 

 than stone, such for example as bone, ivory, and the horn of stag 

 and reindeer. The once problematical baton de commandement 

 is believed to be nothing more nor less than a straightener for 

 the shafts of arrows and javelins, as originally suggested by 

 Boyd Dawkins. 



In his discussion of Eoanthropus dawsoni, recently discovered 

 in a gravel pit at Piltdown common, Sussex, England, the author 

 accepts the views of Dr. A. Smith Woodward and Professor 6. 

 Elliot Smith. This briefly is that the skull and lower jaw belong 

 to one and the same individual ; that while the skull is "truly 

 human," the lower jaw is "as distinctly simian." Hence the 

 differences between the man of Piltdown and Homo are generic, 

 and Dr. Woodward was justified in his use of the name Eoan- 

 thropus. The canine tooth subsequently found by Father P. Teil- 

 hard, Sollas again agrees with Woodward in assigning to the 

 lower jaw, right side (some authorities would place this tooth in 

 the upper jaw instead). 



The author has not suppressed his personal opinions on contro- 

 verted questions. Granting that some of these may be wrong, 

 there is much in the book to commend. With the exception of 

 certain omissions such as failure to mention the old Chellean (or 

 pre-Chellean) camp site of Torralbain Spain, the volume is decid- 

 edly up to date. The illustrations though numerous often leave 

 something to be desired in point of execution. The sketch map 

 of the district of Les Eyzies (fig. 81) is antiquated. The 

 insertion twice of the same figure of the mammoth carved in 

 ivory from Pfedmost, first as a piece of Aurignacian sculp- 

 ture (fig. 201), and then as representing Solutrean art (fig. 

 229), is apparently due to an oversight. Figure 168A, repre- 

 senting a mui-al engraving of the head of a hind, is from 

 Castillo instead of Altamira. 



Throughout the book the author's unusual breadth of vision is 

 evident; his power to hold the reader's attention is nowhere 

 relaxed. The new edition of Ancient Hunters is perhaps the 

 best work in English covering this particular field. 



GEORGE GRANT HACCURDY. 



2. Insects and Man: An Account of the more important harm- 

 ful and beneficial Insects, their habits and life-histories, being an 

 Introduction to Economic Entomology for students and general 



