34 Recent Literature, 
Dec. 13 ; December, Dec. 26, Postal delays caused the omission 
of some plates from the December number. These will be issued 
with the January and other numbers of the present year. Haste 
in the printing of the December number caused the numerous typo- 
graphical errors which it contains, and neither authors nor editors 
are responsible for them. The publishers have made new arrange- 
ments for printing, so that the delays in issuing the magazine to 
subscribers, and separate copies to contributors, will not again occur. 
Errata.— In November number, p. 955, fourth line from bottom, 
for 1700 read 700. Do. . p. 997, for 1,600,000 read 160,000. Do., p. 
1029, for Ciione read Cleome. In December number, p. 1073, for 
Septodad2is read Lejjtoclachts; do., Plate xxvii., for fades read brevi- 
EECENT LITERATURE. 
Thomas' Burial Mounds.^ — To one who, like the present re- 
viewer, received most of his archaeological knowledge at the feet of 
t'lat most accurate student of the American Indian within the his- 
toric period, Mr. Lucien Oarr, of Cambridge, Dr. Thomas' monograph 
appeared like an old friend. There is, indeed, much new material, 
and a new presentation of old facts, but there is, too, the same con- 
clusion which we have been led ro hold as true: that those mounds 
wliich dot our Western and Southern States and which have given 
rise to such an amount of speculation and hypothesis, were built by 
the Indians in possession of that region within the historic period or 
by their ancestors. The facts brought out by Mr. Carr in his essay 
on the " Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered " 
have not beten controverted, and the present paper but adds to the 
evidence that there is no necessity for invoking the aid of a special 
race of " Mound-Builders " distinct from the Indians found in pos- 
session of the eastern half of the United States at the time of its dis- 
covery. 
Dr. Thomas takes up the subject in the following order : (1) Burial 
Mounds of the Wisconsin District ; (2) Burial Mounds of the Illi- 
nois District ; (3) The Ohio District ; (4) The Appalachian District; 
(5) The Cherokeesprobably mound-builders; (6) Concludingremarks; 
while in a supplementary note he gives an account of the burial 
customs of the Hurons, translated from the pages of the martyred 
Brebeuf in the "Relation" of 1636 
In the cases of the mounds of Wisconsin as well as of those of the 
Illinois district (including Northern Illinois, Eastern Iowa and 
' Burial Mounds of the Northern Section of the United States. By Cyrus. 
Thomas. Extr. Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Wash- 
ngton, 1888, pp. 119. 
