REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897. — This 
volume contains a number of papers upon anthropological subjects, 
some of which have been reviewed in this journal. 
* Mescal: a New Artificial Paradise" is described by Havelock 
Ellis from his own experience with the drug. Mescal— not to be 
confounded with the intoxicating drink distilled from the agave — is 
the blunt dried leaves of the cactus, called Anhalonium Lewinii. It 
is used by the Kiowa Indians and some other southwestern tribes. 
Though the use of mescal buttons is prohibited by the government, 
the practice of chewing them yet prevails among the Kiowas. ‘“ The 
rite usually takes place on Saturday night; the men then sit in 
a circle within the tent round a large camp fire, which is kept 
burning brightly all the time. After prayer the leader hands each 
man four buttons, which are slowly chewed and swallowed, and 
altogether about ten or twelve buttons are consumed by each man 
between sundown and daybreak. Throughout the night the men sit 
around the fire in a state of reverie, — amid continual singing and the 
beating of drums by attendants, — absorbed in the color visions and 
other manifestations of mescal intoxication, and about noon on the 
following day, when the effects have passed off, they get up and go 
about their business, without any depression or other unpleasant 
after effect." Mr. James Mooney called the attention of the An- 
thropological Society of Washington to this intoxicant in 1891. Dr. 
Weir Mitchell later published an account of the effects of the drug. 
Mr. Ellis describes the effects of mescal, especially the color visions, 
upon himself and also upon an artist friend. 
Anthropological Notes. — Accompanying No. 4, Vol. X, of the 
Bulletin of the Anthropological Society of Paris is a list of the papers 
published by Dr. L. Manouvrier between 1880 and 1899. There 
are twenty-six titles classified as: ‘ Scientific Philosophy” ; ** Gen- 
eral Psychology”; * Reports"; “Sociology”; thirty-one as * Cere- 
bral Anatomy and Physiology"; **Craniology"; * The Brain and 
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