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The introductory chapter reviews the history of bronze in the 

 classical languages and touches upon the mooted question of an 

 antecedent copper age. The rest of the work takes up in detail 

 celts of various forms, chisels, gouges, hammers, sickles, knives, 

 razors, daggers, spears, halberds, maces, swords, armor, trumpets, 

 bells, pins, ornaments, and vessels. The great interest of the 

 .book, however, centers around the two closing chapters, relating 

 to the methods employed by ancient bronze-workers, and the 

 chronology and origin of bronze. The relation of Mr. Evans to 

 modern archaeological investigations as a cautious doubter, gives 

 to all his utterances a credibility of the highest order. 



Dr. C. C. Abbott has long been known as an indefatigable 

 worker in archaeology. For some years he has enjoyed excep- 

 tionable advantages as an associate curator of the Peabody Mu- 

 seum at Cambridge, Mass. Like the work of Dr. Evans, this vol- 

 ume is devoted to a part only of one of the subdivisions of anthro- 

 pology, being restricted in area to the north-east Atlantic States, and 

 in material, to stone, bone and clay ; but, like Dr. Evans in another 

 respect, the author rambles frequently far from the Atlantic ocean, 

 and even inserts a chapter on copper implements. The illustra- 

 tions, like those in most American archaeological works, not ex- 

 cepting some of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution, are, 

 most of them, very poor, indeed. The great merit of the book is its 

 adaptation to a very large class of intelligent people in our coun- 

 try, who are interested in local archaeology, and would like to 

 place themselves under the guidance of a skilled workman. For 

 such persons Primitive Industry is valuable, though a little prolix. 

 Practical archaeologists will run rapidly over the volume until 

 they come to chapters xxxn and XXXIIl (the latter by Professor 

 Henry Carvill Lewis), in order to hear Dr. Abbott's latest utter- 

 the palaeolithic implements of the Trenton gravels. 

 )wn peculiar province, and a subject worthy of the most 

 careful scrutiny. In short, Dr. Abbott finds in the Trenton gravels, 

 at a depth varying from three to forty feet, along-side of and be- 

 neath remains of the mastodon, " turtle-back " celts. The geo- 

 logical age of this deposit is unknown, but the implements are 

 held to be veritable traces of a people who inhabited the northern 

 Atlantic seaboard of America untold centuries prior to the advent 

 of the Indian, or of Indians who reached our shores as far back 

 as the glacial epoch. 



Volume vn of the United States Geographical Surveys, west 

 of the iooth meridian, is a joint production of F. W. Putnam, C. 

 C. Abbott, S. S. Haldeman, II. C. Yarrow, II. W. Ilenshaw, Lucien 

 Carr, and Albert S. Gatschet, in very unequal proportions, how- 

 ever, the greater part of it being the work of Prof. Putnam and 

 Dr. Abbott. Several of the chapters are reproduced from Lieut. 

 Wheeler's annual reports. Although a child of hope deferred, 

 the imprint dating 1879, its parents have many reasons to be 





