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of relics, page 76, followed by-quite an elaborate description of 
the principal types. 
It needs only a little observation to remark what kinds of 
books and information students of our day are most eager to 
procure relative to the centuries that are gone. It is doing no 
violence to the rules of logic to infer that the men of the coming 
centuries will laugh at our vain speculations and pay enormous 
prices for old books which contain solid, local information. We 
never read a work of this character without wishing to take 
the author by the hand. The greatest scrupulosity should be 
exercised in compiling such records, for in most cases they be- 
come the court of last appeal. 
Tue ANTHROPOLOGICAL INsTITUTE OF GREAT BriTain.—Vol- 
ume x, No. 111, issued in Feb., 1881, is at hand. The contents 
are as follows : 
Brabrook, E. W.—Memoir of the late Paul Broca, honorary member, with a por- 
trait, pp. 242—260. 
Sen, Rev. Robert Henry—Religious beliefs and practices in Melanesia, pp. 
261-314. - 
Lubbock, Sir John—Notes on a stone implement of Palzeolithic type found in Al- 
Seria, pp. 316-319. ; 
Price, F. G. Hilton—Camps on the Malvern hills, pp. 319-330. 
Fison, Rev, Lorimer—Land Tenure in Fiji, pp. 332-351. 
Gooch, William D,—Notes on the occurrence of stone implements in South Russia, 
PP- 352-357. ; 
_ One is not astonished to find stone implements anywhere in 
our day, and these belonging to the various classes set up by spe- 
Cialists. Sir John Lubbock lays before us a specimen of palao- 
lithic type from Algeria. In the same paper he denies objécts of 
this class to Russia. The edge is quite taken from this assertion, 
however, by the paper of Mr, Gooch, in the same number, wherein 
appears the drawing of one very rude implement from that quarter. 
f more general interest are the papers of Messrs. Codrington 
and Fison. 
To begin with the former, the observations of beliefs were con- 
fined principally to the Banks, New Hebrides, and Solomon 
8toups. The beliefs of the Banks group are first worked up with 
care and those of the other two are then compared with these. 
Some very just observations are made. upon the two difficulties 
in the path of the observer of religious phenomena among lower 
races, viz: the difficulty of sympathizing with the people and the 
want of a vocabulary. ; 
The author also endeavors to trace the evidences of mixture in 
blood between the Negritos and pure Polynesians by the changes 
Wrought in their beliefs. This is dangerous ground. The truth 
'S, regulative ideas give place before a different civilization slowly, 
and so far as yet known capriciously. Again, we are constant y 
