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and with arrow feather- painted on their backs refer us strikingly 

 to the arrow, and this fact. illustrated "v a series of surprising pic- 

 tures is one of the telling features of Mr." Culm's book. Whether we 

 agree or not, whether we prefer to wait till more evidence is in 

 for regions like parts of Australia, Tasmania and the Andaman 

 [sland< where man appears never to have had arrows, and whether 

 we believe that we have reason to doubt that the notion of the 

 four world quarters ever was universally impressed upon humanity 

 the original suggestions of Mr. Culin pointing out new and seemingly 

 widespread relations among games and tracing m- seeking to trace in 

 them fresh illustration for the story of human development, is of 

 importance and interest. 



Following further the author's dignified and always sympathetic 

 pn-mtation of the subject into a description of other games which 

 sometimes, like the counting out rhymes of children, are regarded 

 as less conscious survivals of the diviners' doings, sometimes as 

 mere festive or athletic pastimes, we gather pleasing evidence of 

 the world kinship of children in the record (often illustrated by 

 Dative Korean artists in color), of blind man's buff, leap frog, horse 

 stick, tug of war, stone fighting, pop guns, tops, tilt ups, and jack 

 stones. Too briefly the pages reflecting remembered joys of youth tell 

 of the loosened waters of a brook breaking, if they can, a juvenile dam, 

 of hostile kites sawing their abraisive strings as they soar, of violet 

 whipping, of shovel playing, of youthful mouths crammed with cher- 

 ries, to be eaten without swallowing the stones, and of dragon flies, 

 caught in spider webbed hoops by children reciting poems and released 

 with unconscious cruelty when impaled with paper banners. But new 

 aspects of an ever present floral sympathy in the land of cherry blos- 

 soms and the chrysanthemum are revealed to us when we learn of such 

 Japanese names for bands of combatants as " spring willow blossom," 

 " summer rest forest," and " autumn garden," shouted across the green 

 turf in the foot ball game. 



Notwithstanding the similarities urged between some of the arrow 

 games of Xorth America and their Asiatic representatives we look in 

 vain in the book for suggestion of contact of races, or proof of migra- 

 tion. Lines of investigation such as other observers might choose in 

 tracing the rolling of stone discs sored in motion with sticks or arrows 

 {Chungb>) from the Sandwich Islands to Georgia, the author eschews 

 as unfruitful and inconclusive " unless supported by linguistic evi- 

 dence." His valuable and original investigation has not essayed to 

 furnish new light as to the geographical origin of the human race but 

 has rather multiplied the evidence showing that man's mind has 

 worked alike everywhere.— H. C. Mercer. 



