REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Fouilles a Brassempouy, en 1896.'— Several notices have ap- 
peared during the last three or four years of the discovery of statu- 
ettes and other paleolithic remains at Brassempouy in southwestern 
France. In a recent number of ZL’ Anthropologie MM. Piette and 
Porterie have given a brief description of their explorations in 1896. 
In the caves were found large quantities of horse, hyena, and other 
animal bones, etchings of animals, paleolithic implements, and a 
small but well-executed carving representing the figure of the human 
female. The statuette is broken and incomplete, and is not quite 
symmetrical, yet it is a “remarkable object of art,” considering the 
tools with which the ivory was worked. The stone implements and 
weapons are similar to those of Cro-Magnon and Gorge-d’Enfer, and 
those who made them probably belonged to the “Dordogne School 
of Art” of glacial times. FRANK RUSSELL. 
The Ethnology of Funafutti.?—- During the summer of 1896 Mr. 
Charles Hedley, of the “ Funafutti Coral Reef Boring Expedition,” 
collected a number of ethnological specimens from the Atoll of 
Funafutti. Brief descriptions of these with accompanying figures 
are given, together with numerous references to the literature relating 
to Polynesia. The author says in his introduction: “On glancing 
over the ground covered by the following paper my predominant im- 
pressions are: firstly, the poverty of our knowledge of Polynesian 
Ethnology, and the superficial way in which it has been studied; and, 
secondly, the rapidity with which the knowledge of it that might yet be 
gathered is vanishing.” This warning has been given by many writers 
and in relation to many other lands as well. We believe that for some 
time to come those who have an opportunity to study these peoples 
1 Études he eet tee genet. eel TOR à Brassempouy, en 1896. Ed. 
Piette and J. de orteri , T. viii, pp. 165-173 
2 The Atoll A p Ellice Group "Charles Hedley, Australian Museum, 
Sidney, Memoir ZII, Pt. iv, pp. 229-304 
