REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
The Races of Man. — A new treatise upon anthropology, by Dr. 
Joseph Deniker, of the Natural History Museum, Paris, has been 
published by the Scribners in * The Contemporary Science Series." 
It is a very compact little volume of six hundred pages, containing 
many carefully selected illustrations for the elucidation of the text 
and numerous bibliographic notes. Comparison with somewhat simi- 
lar compendiums shows how rapidly anthropology has developed since 
the publication of Oscar Peschel's Races of Man and Fr. Muller's 
Allgemeine Ethnographie a quarter of a century ago. Deniker has 
treated his subject more fully than the philosophic Brinton in Races 
and Peoples; he has given less space to palethnography than has 
Professor Keane in Man, Past and Present. 
Dr. Deniker is inclined to adopt the classification of the anthropo- 
logic sciences advocated by Professor Brinton. We commend his 
views concerning ethnology to the attention of those who fear that 
this growing young science will seek to absorb all cognate fields of 
research, ‘This latter science should concern itself with human 
societies under all their aspects; but as history, political economy, 
etc., have already taken possession of the study of civilized peoples, 
there only remain for it the peoples without a history, or those who 
have not been adequately treated by historians. However, there is 
a convergence of characters in mankind, and we find even to-day 
the trace of savagery in the most civilized peoples. Ethnical facts 
Must not, then, be considered separately. We must compare them 
either among different peoples, or, down the course of the ages, in 
the same people, without concerning ourselves with the degree of 
actual civilization attained.” 
Three chapters are devoted to “ Somatic Characters," dealing suc- 
cessively with the * distinctive characters of man and apes," “ dis- 
tinctive morphological characters of human races,” “ physiological 
characters,” and “ psychological and pathological characters.” The 
principal physical criteria of race— head-form, pigmentation, stature, 
and hair — receive special attention, and a number of new statistical 
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