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tributed only to collaborators.) Washington: Government Print- 
ing Office, 1885. [pp. 1135, gr. 8vo.] This work was commenced 
by Mr. Pilling several years ago, and with unflagging and sys- 
tematic assiduity prosecuted amid the distractions of a laborious 
and exacting Government appointment. In the first place the 
-sources of information have been exhaustively consulted from 
Adelung to Williams, The feeling of security and confidence is 
at once awakened on one’s finding that the catalogues of Adelung 
and Vater, Alcedo, Andrade, Asher, Bartlett, Berendt, Boturini, 
Brinley, Brinton, Clarke, Field, Icazbalceta, Ludewig, Ramirez, 
Sabin, Steiger, Trumbull have all been exhausted and their per- 
sonal aid in many instances has been secured. The rules of cata- 
loguing adopted by the consensus of leading libraries have been 
carried out, so that in this case we have an alphabetical list of 
persons or societies that have written in or upon the Indian lan- 
guages of North America, with full and accurate titles of all 
editions of their writings. This is not all. Every page of the 
work furnishes brief abstracts of works, the author’s own state- 
ment of his purpose in his work, the annotations of distinguished 
critics who were conversant with the several languages. Mr. 
Pilling has also kept a record of his own difficulties in finding 
many of the publications recorded, so as to make the task of 
hunting, which :was extremely laborious to him, easy to those 
who come after him. Finally, no one is omitted. If he is, it is 
because he has been hiding, and it will be necessary only to know 
of his existence to drag him into publicity in the final issue. The 
error is really on the other side, and many titles are included for 
trivial reasons. Major Powell receives from the author and 
_ richly deserves the highest commendation for the encouragement 
- which he has given. There is, perhaps, a little too much mutual 
admiration between patron and author for a work of such magni- 
tude. This is carried to a ridiculous extent when over thirty 
pages are given to members of the Bureau of Ethnology, one 
page to the Smithsonian Institution and three inches to W. W. 
Turner. It is to be hoped that all who are interested in Ameri- 
can philology will call Mr. Pilling’s attention to works on Ameri- 
can Indian languages which are in the least danger of escaping 
his observation. i 
Tue MOUND-BUILDERS AND THE HISTORIC IĪNDIĄANS.—A ve 
remarkable treatise upon this subject appeared last year in Kos- 
mos,and now comes to us in a separate pamphlet, from the pen 
of Dr. E. Schmidt of Leipzig. The author starts out with the 
assumption that most American archeologists see in the builders 
of the mounds a definite ethnological unit, differing from the his- 
toric Indians in their anatomy but more in their culture. These 
mound-builders peopled in compact settlements the Mississippi 
valley, ruled by despotic government, worshiping the sun with 
uman sacrifices in temples and altar-places, and living upon the 
