824 General Notes. [ October, 
former are the disembodied spirits of men, the latter including 
beings corporeal and incorporeal, but never human. The reader 
will be highly interested in the slight step which this theology 
has made above fetichism,, as, for instance, on page 275, ‘‘ These 
Vuis are very generally associated with stones. It is not that the 
stone is a Vuz, or that the Vu is in the stone, but that there is a 
connection between the Vu and. the stone, that the stone is the 
spirit’s outward part or organ. To a certain extent the same con- 
nection exists between Vuzs and snakes, owls and sharks.” 
r. Lorimer Fison’s paper touches most interestingly upon one 
of our own difficulties. Time and again we have been told, after 
paying a round sum to extinguish some Indian title: Those men 
had no right to make that treaty; according to the usage of our 
tribe the Council were the proper parties. So in Fiji, “ an inves- 
tigator who will listen to that only which the chiefs have to say 
about it, may easily come to the settled conviction that they, and 
they alone, are the owners of the land, and indeed of everything 
else ; while another who takes the statement of the commoners 
only, may easily satisfy himself beyond all doubt that it is they 
who are the real proprietors of the soil. Both of these inquiries 
would be right to a certain extent, and both of them would also 
be wrong. The statement of the commoners I believe to repre- 
sent the ancient custom. That of the chiefs sets forth the extent 
to which they have been able to override the custom.” 
Harvarp University BuLLETIN—One must have many ey€s 
to keep the run of anthropology. Mr. Justin Winsor, the libra- 
rian of Harvard University, is issuing monthly bulletins of the 
University in continuation of the Library Bulletin. The ee 
an account of explorations at Madisonville, Ohio, by Professor 
F. W. Putnam. 
containing 133 pages and eleven plates, It is the report Cae: 
. F. Bandelier upon his researches among the Pueblos, | 
sists of two distinct portions: 1, Historical introduction to stud- 
ies among the sedentary Indians of New Mexico; and 2. it 
port on the ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos. As our praise will. De 
much longer than our censure, it were better to administer the 
latter first. Well, here is a handsome book with neither table ° 
contents nor index to guide the eager seeker after truth. 
however, is a venial offence compared with the reckless snes 
in which the excellent plates are scattered about the volume. * : 
we conscientiously hunted them all out, a list with their localitie 
is appended: Plate x1, front; vi, page 41; Vil, page 42; |} efi 
