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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 





as they like, by the simple and efficient 

 expedient of removing, at the public ex- 

 pense, any economic burden incident to 

 rearing large families. This proposal is 

 seriously made, and in the name of Chris- 

 tianity, by a women who is herself a 

 citizen of a country in which the popula- 

 tion increases by about 600 a day and in 

 which something of the order of a million 

 people are at all times unable to find work 

 to keep themselves alive. We like the 

 nerve of the proposal, but not much else 

 about it. 



THE END OF A WORLD. 



By Claude Anet. Translated from the French 

 by Jeffery E. Jeffery. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 

 $3.00 5 x -j\\ z68 New York 



An entertaining romance, which at- 

 tempts to portray through the medium of 

 fiction the end of the prehistoric civiliza- 

 tion which had its metropolis in what is 

 now Les Eyzies. It is charmingly writ- 

 ten. Some of the reconstructions of this 

 lost civilization which the author imagines 

 are plausible and seem probably true. 

 Others are more dubious. It is almost 

 certain that as more evidence accumulates 

 some of the theories about the Solutrean 

 and Aurignacian civilizations now pre- 

 vailing in the best archeological circles 

 will be modified. The book is illustrated 

 with bold and rather effective black and 

 white drawings from cave paintings and 

 sculptures. 



MAORI SYMBOLISM. Being an Account 

 of the Origin, Migration, and Culture of the 

 New Zealand Maori as Recorded in Certain 

 Sacred Legends. 



By Ettie A. Rout. Harcourt, Brace and Co. 



$6.00 6 x 9I; xxxii + 3iz New York 



Ettie Rout can be depended on to write 



vividly of whatever subject she tackles. 



This book has obviously been produced 

 con amore. The dedication is to "my 

 fellow-countrymen — the New Zealand 

 Maori. " It is a detailed, rather rambling, 

 but extremely interesting discussion of 

 Maori ethnology and folklore, based upon 

 evidence given by "an Arawa Noble," 

 Hohepa Te Rake. The material is diS 

 cussed under five main heads : Origin and 

 migration of the New Zealand Maori; 

 health and race culture; social organiza- 

 tion; agriculture and building; sacred life 

 symbols. The book is extensively and 

 well illustrated, and has a detailed index. 



MENSCHLICHE ERBLICHKEITS- 



LEHRE UND RASSENHYGIENE. Band 

 I. Menschliche Erhlichkeitslehre. 

 By Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer, and Frit^ 

 LenZ- J- F. Lehmanns Verlagi 



16 Mk. 6 x 9; xii -f- 601 Munchen] 



The third, revised and enlarged, edi- 

 tion- of the best existing general book on 

 human inheritance. The authors express 

 the belief that not only has general genetic 

 theory become stabilized but also human 

 genetics, so that future editions of this 

 book are not likely to require fundamental 

 revision. It is a pity that we have in 

 English no such sound, comprehensive, 

 and stimulating work as this on human 

 heredity. 



THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF 

 MEDICINE. Designed for the Use of FracA 

 titioners and Students of Medicine. 

 By Sir William Osier. Tenth Edition, 

 Thoroughly Revised by Thomas McCrae. 



D. Applet on and Co. 

 $7. 50 6x9; xxviii + 12.33 New York 

 The "one volume Osier" is a classic of 

 medical literature. It is full of the wis- 

 dom of "the Chief." Dr. McCrae is a 



