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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



chapters are devoted to an hypothesis 

 which is deemed a fair and proper interpre- 

 tation of the data collected. 



The author believes that intelligent 

 action can lead to the blending of certain 

 sub-races in the American population 

 which would result in a desirable variabil- 

 ity in the new stock and that such 

 blending would produce many great men 

 and geniuses. "An American art, drama, 

 music and especially a new religion 

 would arise as the creations of the genius 

 of the new Natio-Race. ' ' 



MY HAPPY CHIMPANZEE. The Ad- 

 ventures of Mary, the Wonderful Chimpanzee, 

 at the Seaside. 



By Cherry Kearton. J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd. 

 5 shillings 5! x 7I; 12.4 London 



This little book, while perhaps not 

 quite so appealing to the lover of animals 

 as the author's earlier book, "My Friend 

 Toto," consists of another series of 

 interesting and amusing anecdotes about 

 the very human behavior of an almost 

 human creature. 



DE OMNIBUS REBUS 

 ET QUI BUSDEM ALUS 



PROPHYLAXIE ANTIVENERIENNE 

 INDIVIDUELLE A TRAVERS LES AGES. 



Essai historique. 

 By E. L. A. Baude. 



Librairie E. le Eranqois 

 6 francs 6| x 9! ; 47 (paper) Ear is 



This is an entertaining historical ac- 

 count of one aspect of man's struggle with 

 a difficult general problem, namely, how 

 to have one's cake and eat it too. Anaxi- 

 toteles made the sage remark that the 

 worship of no goddess is pleasanter than 

 that of Venus. But the consequences are 

 all too often depressing, not to say 

 disastrous. Dr. Baude says that personal 

 prophylaxis against venereal disease was 

 first put on a really scientific basis by 

 Metchnikoff in 1906. Before that time 

 the matter had been either in the hands of 

 quacks or of honest but stupid physicians 

 who thought they were getting results 

 but weren't. 



This scholarly treatise of Dr. Baude's, 

 with its bibliography of 79 titles, will 

 form the material for a learned footnote 

 in that magnum opus, in elephant folio, 

 The Natural History of Copulation, to the 

 preparation of which certain distinguished 

 biologists propose to devote the declining 

 years of their lives. 



DE L'EXPLICATION DANS LES SCI- 

 ENCES. 



By Emile Meyerson. Payot 



60 francs 5^ x 9; 784 (paper) Paris 

 A philosophical treatise on the theory 

 of knowledge of first rate significance to 

 all scientific men, and especially biologists. 

 Apart from the stimulating qualities of 

 the author's own particular brand of 

 monism, the work is valuable as a history 

 of scientific ideas and methodology. 



A BOOK OF FOOD. 



By P. Morton Shand. 



Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 

 $4.00 5! x 8; 319 New York 



Although not a cook book this volume 

 is about food in the home. In the 

 preface the author says that his remarks 

 "are addressed not merely to gourmets, 

 to all curious and adventurous spirits in 

 the domain of gastrosophy, but also to 





