. 646 - Recent Literature. [August, 
with citations of numerous authorities, that the lowest of existing 
savages, such as the Australians, have a moral sense and ideas of 
a God, and that so far as we know the earliest prehistoric races 
had the religious sense and an idea of a. hereafter, as shown by 
the burial of their dead. 
The book, though published in the present year, must have 
been prepared several years since, as it is strangely deficient in ref- 
erences. to recent discoveries in American anthropology, such as. 
Wyman’s works, the discoveries of Professor J. D, Whitney in 
California and several other prominent archzologists, but still the 
work is a most useful and valuable one, in many respects written 
from an advanced standpoint, and. the author distinguishes, as 1s 
not always done by modern anthropologists, between reasonable 
inductions and simple conjectures. 
Tue ZooLocicaL Recorp For 1879.\—This volume, though 
erence book for zodlogists. A have repeatedly said, rape 
merican zodlogists or entomologists, who live out of reac i 
libraries, would do well own the volumes as they annually 
appear. The Record for 1880 is promised to subscribers 10 the 
course of the present year. Meanwhile the work of the eanetn, 
will be greatly facilitated and the list of zodlogical papers and oF 
new species and genera more perfect if American authors hie 
think to send copies of their articles to the editor, care of Mr. ws 
Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row, London. 
_ Our Sportine Journats.2—No country can boast of porns 
conducted sporting journals than the United States. The a 
of our country furnishes many varieties of sport, and all are tag 
represented by agreeable correspondents from every section O° va 
continent. An important function of these periodicals, and ne 
which they are effectively performing, is the preservation of 
' The Zoological Record for 1879; being volume ‘sixteenth of the Record of 
Zoological Literature. Edited by Eowarp CALDWELL Rye, London, pel and 
* Afield and Afloat, Philadelphia, 16 pp. The American Field, New tL lot 22. 
Chicago, 28 pp. Zhe Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun, New York, pp» *™ - 
The Chicago Fitld, Chicago, 24 pp. . 
