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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



FOOTPRINTS OF EARLY MAN. 

 By Donald A. Mackenzie. 



Blackie and Son, Ltd. 

 5 shillings Glasgow 



5i x 7f; xviii + 190 



In this readable, if not very deep, book 

 the author has brought together brief 

 descriptions of all of the more important 

 records that have been left by ancient man. 

 Sand and gravel pits, asphalt beds and 

 caves have furnished contributions to our 

 knowledge of prehistory. Based upon 

 these discoveries the author reconstructs 

 what he conceives to be the customs, modes 

 of living and wanderings of primitive man. 

 The narrative is brought down to the 

 dawn of what we still oddly call the 

 "historical" period. Summaries are 



given of the archeological finds made by 

 recent expeditions to China and the Gobi 

 Desert, as well as descriptions of the 

 recent discoveries of the Galilee, Rho- 

 desian and "Lady of Lloyds" skulls. 



This book, being in no way technical, 

 will be of interest to the general reader. 

 The volume is illustrated by 16 plates, and 

 a brief bibliography of one page is given, 

 containing a list of the chief works of 

 reference consulted by the writer. 



obtaining a true picture of the several 

 races making up a population. Consider- 

 able space is devoted to the European 

 races (particularly the Nordic) in pre- 

 history and history, the author's main 

 thesis being that ' 'When we survey the fall 

 in each case of the great empires and crea- 

 tive cultures from India to the West, this 

 much is always clearly to be seen: that 

 every 'fall' of a people of Indo-European 

 speech is brought about through the run- 

 ning dry of the blood of the creative, the 

 Nordic race." 



In the concluding chapters the author 

 discusses the position of the Nordics at 

 the present time — not only in Europe but 

 in America as well — pointing out the 

 dangers that beset this strain of the human 

 race, which the author regards as particu- 

 larly valuable. 



There are numerous illustrations, which 

 assist the reader to a better understanding 

 of the comparisons which the author 

 makes between the different races. The 

 book as a whole is a piece of Nordic 

 propaganda, reasonably sound on the 

 somatological side, but much more dubi- 

 ous when it goes over into the fields of 

 history and race psychology. 



THE RACIAL ELEMENTS OF EURO- 

 PEAN HISTORY. 



By Hans F. K. Gunther (Translated from the 

 second German edition by G.C. Wheeler). 



E. P. Dutton and Co. 

 $4.60 5§ x 8f ; vi + Z79 New York 

 The early chapters of this book deal 

 with an analysis of the population of 

 Europe into five distinct types or races. 

 The analysis is made chiefly by means of 

 anthropometric measurements, but mental 

 traits are likewise considered. Much 

 stress is put upon the importance of the 

 -correlation of certain characteristics in 



A SURVEY OF THE SOCIAL STRUC- 

 TURE OF ENGLAND AND WALES as 

 Illustrated by Statistics. 

 By A. M. Carr-Sa-unders and D. Car a dog 

 Jones. Oxford University Press 



10 shillings London 



5? x 8§; xvii + 2.46 

 An admirable attempt to recover the 

 dry bones of social statistics with flesh, 

 to reconstruct from the data of the Census 

 and other statistical sources the organism 

 called English society. Starting with an 

 analysis of the population by age and sex 

 the authors are led to an examination of 



