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DIE MESTIZEN AUF KISAR. 



By Ernst Rodenwaldt. G. Kolff and Co. 



PI, xvii + 483 Weltevreden 



II, tables and plates 

 This is a contribution of the very first 

 importance to the research literature of 

 human biology. It is a thorough, de- 

 tailed, and comprehensive study of the 

 anthropology, biology, and sociology of 

 the European-native bastard people of 

 Kisar, a small island in the so-called 

 "Southwest Islands" group in the Dutch 

 East Indies. The nearest large island is 

 Timor. About the middle of the 17th 

 century the Dutch took up residence on the 

 island. The descendants of the original 

 crosses between these Europeans and the 

 natives inhabit the island today. They 

 have been studied, family by family, in 

 the most exhaustive manner by Dr. Roden- 

 waldt. One volume of the work is de- 

 voted to plates and pedigree charts. We 

 congratulate the author on so fine a piece 

 of work, and commend it to all students of 

 human biology. 



THE MYSTIC ROSE. A Study of Primi- 

 tive Marriage and of Primitive Thought in 

 its Bearing on Marriage. 

 By Ernest Crawley. Revised by Theodore 

 Besterman. Boni and Liveright 



$10 Vol. I, 5^ x 8|; xx -f- 375 New York 

 Vol. II, viii + 340 

 The original edition of this classic of 

 ethnology has long been out of print. 

 The material for this welcome reissue was 

 to some extent revised by Mr. Besterman 

 after the author's death, but mainly aug- 

 mented by additions, consisting chiefly 

 "first, of evidence, or further evidence, 

 where the argument seemed to require 

 strengthening, and of specimens of the 

 large accumulations of anthropological 

 material during the last two decades, and, 

 secondly, of replies to criticisms and of 



discussions of the more recently advanced 

 theories." There has also been added a 

 bibliography covering 42. pages, and the 

 index has been made more comprehensive 

 and detailed. It is a real service to human 

 biology to have made this treatise once 

 more readily available. 



CHILD LIFE INVESTIGATIONS. So- 

 cial Conditions and Acute Rheumatism. Med- 

 ical Research Council Special Report Series, 

 No. 114. 

 By G. F. Still Qand a Committee). 



His Majesty's Stationery Office 

 zs. 6d. 6 x 9! ; 108 (paper) London 



The general conclusion reached from this 

 painstaking study of the environmental 

 influences in relation to the incidence of 

 acute rheumatism in children is: "That 

 although it is difficult to point to this or 

 that fault of environment as responsible for 

 rheumatism, nevertheless it is by raising 

 the standard of environment, improving 

 the home conditions so that they approxi- 

 mate to the well-ordered conditions found 

 in such institutions as those in which 

 rheumatism was found to be much less 

 common, and probably by reducing crowd- 

 ing, so that the possibility of contagion 

 may be diminished, that we may hope 

 to reduce the frequency of rheumatism in 

 children." 



THE ETHICS AND ECONOMICS OF 

 FAMILY ENDOWMENT. The Social 

 Service Lecture, 1927. 



By Eleanor R. Rathbone. The Epworth Press 

 zs. 6d. net 5! x 8; 118 London 



The central thesis of this tract, delivered 

 as an endowed lecture to the Wesleyan 

 Conference, is that society as a whole 

 should encourage the indigent, impover- 

 ished, and generally submerged portion of 

 the population to have as many children 





