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society, the function of its members as well as their processes and 

 customs. 



10. Comparative Religion. — The description of humanity in all 

 its attitudes with reference to the soul, a future life, and spiritual 

 beings related to man. # 



11. Anthropological Apparatus. — A science so comprehensive 

 must have its instruments of precision, its museums and libraries, 

 and its special works. No treatise upon the subject at large 

 would be complete without an account of these instrumentalities. 



With this analysis before us, it is not difficult to gauge the 

 works under review. Tylor's Anthropology professes to cover 

 the whole field. In this regard it not only enters into compe- 

 tition with older works, such as Waitz's Anthropology, and 

 Klemm's Culturgeschicte, but with more recent publications, such 

 as Peschels' Races of Men, Topinard's Anthropologic, and Qua- 

 trefages' L'Espece Humaine. Each of these works has great 

 merit, especially in those divisions of the subject wherein the 

 author is a specialist. Peschel is an ethnologist, Topinard and 

 Quatrefages are distinguished anatomists, Tylor has devoted 

 his whole life to linguistics, technology, and comparative 

 religion. In this work of the latter, therefore, we should rea- 

 sonably expect to find the greater space given to these 

 themes. In fact, Hexicology is almost totally neglected ; 

 Anthropogeny, Archaeology, Biology and Ethnology are dis- 

 missed in the first three chapters of 113 pages ; Glottology has 

 chapters iv-vn, 68 pages; Technology, chapters vm-xiii, 

 160 pages; Sociology, chapter xvi, 35 pages; and Comparative 

 Religion, chapters xiv and xv, 58 pages. Furthermore, merit 

 in this instance, has no relation to the number of pages, those 

 subjects which are treated in a short space being very superficially 

 handled, while those which occupy the greater part of the book 

 show everywhere the hand of a master. Dr. Tylor is a pleasant 

 writer, never dips his pen in gall, and never rushes into extremes. 

 It would be no disparagement to the great number of anthropol- 

 ogists in England to say that Dr. Tylor was, of all, the best 

 adapted to write this work. The book fills a decided gap in our 

 scientific literature, and will, no doubt, find its way into the li- 

 brary of every one interested in the natural history of man. 



The volume of Mr. Evans is of an entirely different character. 

 It is a fraction of a fraction, as regards its subject matter, being a 

 chapter in archaeology, restricted in its area to Great Britain, and 

 in the material described to bronze, in the widest acceptation of 

 that term. For ten years Evans' Ancient Stone Implements, 

 Weapons, and Ofnaments of Great Britain, has been the Bible of 

 archaeologists. Whether we regard the analysis of the book, its 

 typographic appearance, the beautiful cuts, or the wonderful 

 nicety of description, it is well nigh faultless. The volume on 

 bronze implements is a fit companion to the one just mentioned. 



