CONTENTS 



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Introduction xi 



CHAPTER I 



Monkeys, Apes, and Men — Comparative Anatomy — Skulls — The 



Law of Cranial Projection I 



CHAPTER II 



Early Impression — What is Speech? — First Efforts — The Phono- 

 graph — The First Record of Monkey Speech — Monkey Words 

 — Phonetics — Human Speech and Monkey Speech ....... 12 



CHAPTER III 



Monkey Friends — Jokes — The Sound of Alarm — Jennie .... 24 



CHAPTER IV 



Monkey Ethics — Sense of Color — Monkeys Enumerate — First 



Principles of Art 30 



CHAPTER V 



Pedro's Speech Recorded — Delivered to Puck through the Phono- 

 graph — Little Darwin Learns a New Word 38 



CHAPTER VI 



Five Little Brown Cousins : Mickie, McGinty, Nemo, Dodo, and 



Nigger — Nemo Apologizes to Dodo 45 



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