334 General Notes. [ April, 
Tue Bronze AGE IN GERMANY.—Our readers will remember ° 
the superb volume of M. Chantre upon the Bronze age. e 
have to draw attention to a second work that has just fallen into 
our hands, though bearing the imprint of 1878. It is entitled, 
‘Die Bronzeschwerter des Koniglichen Museums zu Berlin, 
Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Generalverwaltung, durch A. 
Bastian und A. Voss. Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 
1878.” This elegant quarto contains XVI, 79 pages of text, and 
16 plates, in which are 281 photolithographic figures. Although 
the title is “ bronze-swords,” the drawings and descriptions include 
arm-ornaments, axes, buckles, plates, amber, celts, batons, daggers, 
iron, ivory, leather, fibula, vessels, gold, girdle, neck-ornaments, 
resin, wood, horn, clappers, boxes, spear-points, knives, needles, 
eisnas palstave, beads, arrow-points, tweezers, sconces, bucklers, 
keys, sword-hilts, spirals, pottery, urns and tongs. The localities 
from which the, objects come are the different States of the Ger- 
man Empire, Denmark, Sweden, Austro- -Hungary, Italy, Greece, 
Turkey and Egypt. 
. To each plate a chapter is devoted, in which the separate 
objects are described minutely, and the catalogue number an 
museum indicated. 
In the introduction, Professor Bastian gives an excellent résumé 
of studies on the Bronze-age with copious references to authori- 
ties. On the whole, this is one of the most comprehensive and 
thorough archeological monographs we have seen for many a 
day. 
NTHROPOLOGY IN GREAT Brirain.—The August number of 
the Journal of the Anthropological Institute commences Vol. x. 
The original communications cover a variety of yale all of 
which are of general interest. Their titles are as follow 
: os the Ce Central South African Tribes from the south coast to the Zambesi. By Dr. 
mi 
Notes on ie een woe Translated from the “Tséén Han Shoo,” Book 
96, Part 1. By A. Wy) 
On the origin set the plough and ~ ae By E. B. Tylor. 
Visualized numerals. By F hath 
On Nicobarese idevgt aphs. By 
Notes on the Polynesian races. By rl ‘Steniland Wake. 
The paper of Dr. Holub is a description of personal adventures 
among the Bushmen, Hottentot, and Banthu tribes, and is illus- 
trated with plates from his work, ' — Years in South Africa,” 
published by Sampson Low and Marst 
The Notes on the western regions are translations from ancient 
Chinese records of references to Asiatic nations lying to the west 
of them. 
Mr. Tylor’s communication on the plough and the wheel car- 
riage has already appeared in (Vature, as well as Mr. Galton’s 
upon visualized numerals. 
The paper which will be most carefully and widely read, per- 
