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similar to the color bitlidness of certain persons; 2. The effort to 
restrict a language to the compass of types already in use among 
printers, whereby many fine shades of sound are slighted ; 3. Ig- | 
norance of the physiological laws of speech. 
KAYOWE SOUNDS. 
Surds. Sonant. Aspirated. Spirants. Nasals. „Trills. Vowels, 
Gutturals k g x h,’ ng eji | 
alatals Af 
Linguals k g sh l ro 
Dentals t d gt n, nd, dl 
Labials Pp b f w m, mb u 
In the consonant series the absences will strike any observer, 
and the two peculiar sounds are and g; the two last being 
linguo-dentals produced by holding the r tp of the tongue ; 
against the hard palate and pronouncing k a 
In the vocalic series the author e Lee has elaborated 
from the five English vowels, a, e, i, o, u, fifteen sounds without: 
indicating what they are equivalent to in English. 
The chapter on alternation of sounds is a very important one, n 
and leads to a comprehension of the different Beare? frequently — 
adopted by different authors for the same wor 
the remaining papers of the Antiquarian are of the first rank 
and are well worthy of perusal. 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN EuroPE.—For general information on an- 
thropology no other journal can compare with the Revue d An- 
thropologie of Paris, and ae 3 of Vol. v certainly sustains its 
enviable reputation. The reviews are even more valuable than 
the original papers. Of the latter there are five, to wit: 
The ig et of ar capacity of the skull according to the registers of Broca 
By Paul Topinard 
Essay r the origin, the evolution and the actual condition of the sedentary Ber : 
Contato to the study of i ease haa classification of the age of rade 
By Philip Salm y 
The MES of the iea penbrela. By William Lejean. n 
T re aoe a of human bones belonging to the stone age in Norway. By - 
M. Topinard devotes twenty-five pages to the explanation e 
M. Broca’s methods of craniometry, with all the precision ofa 
text-book. Our readers engaged in craniometric researches : 
should carefully examine this | 
aures, or sedenta Berbers are divided into 
branches, the Getules, “mountaineers,” and the Mazigues, or “eik 
tivators.” To these people, living in Algiers and Morocco, 
distinguished from the wild Berbers, M. Sabatier devotes thirty 
pages. In their institutions we retrace the past, and are able 
observe the evolution of a ik e. Inasmuch as they are of Cel- 
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