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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 555 
ciples were, and illustrate them, purely in the interest of science, by 
novel cases and, when possible, by the cumulative evidence of 
familiar cases. If I have succeeded in contributing a few unfa- 
miliar facts to the store of science (and the hope that I have is 
encouraged by the fact that my reviewer has had the courtesy to 
approve of the treatment of some cases, and to acknowledge the 
merit of an occasional novelty) I am much gratified ; and consider 
myself well paid for my labors. To be charged with literary theft 
must be unpleasant even when it is merited; but to be falsely 
branded with “scientific plagiarism,” without any provocation, is 
an accusation which cannot be borne in silence. In this case, the . 
charge bears with it so much arrogance, that a simple defence 
against it is not sufficient; and I should consider myself very 
selfish and uncourteous did I not make some return for the marked 
attention which I have received. I therefore deem it my duty to 
state here, that the several examples alluded to above are but a 
fraction of the number of cases in which I have suffered from my 
indiscretion of being too trustingly communicative, and from Dr. 
Coues having taken advantage of earlier means of publication. 
_ Should my reviewer realize the truth of his preliminary remark, 
that “the critic’s office is not seldom ungracious,” I am sure that 
I feel very sorry that he made up his mind not to “shirk the re- 
sponsibility ” in which the tone, more than the matter, of his criti- 
cism involved him. 
REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
Antiquities or THE SourHEeRN InprANs.*—The author expresses 
the hope that the pages of this volume will, “at least, in some de- 
gree, minister to the information and pleasure of those who are 
hot incurious with regard to the subject of American archæ- 
ology ;” and we think in this he will not be disappointed. There 
certainly is a large amount of valuable information in 1 the twenty- 
two chapters of the work. 
e several works that have now long been the text books of 
ag *Antiquities of the Sout} ndians. arap of the Georgia Tribes. By Charles 
Jones, Jr., 1873. 8vo, pp. 532. Ilustrated. Cloth 
