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have just enough of plausibility in them to give them effectiveness. 
But surely half a loaf is better than no bread, and the best possi- 
ble arrangement under the circumstances is infinitely better than 
hopeless confusion. 
Of the archeological papers it is scarcely worth while to speak, 
further than to say that archzologists should always scrupulously 
mark the relation of permanent remains to their environment. 
ith Mr. Man’s papers we are always delighted, He has such 
a happy way of laughing out of countenance the vagaries of 
scientific guesses. It is related of a certain celebrated American 
general, who was making the tour of the world, that he said the 
French found great difficulty in speaking their own language so 
as to be understood by Americans. Mr. Man finds the Anda- 
manese profoundly ignorant of many of the most fascinating 
ideas and customs that have been attributed to them. Guess, 
gentle reader, who is to blame, the Andamese or the lunatics who 
have reported them. 
Tue Antiquity or May.—In the “ Bibliotheque des Sciences 
Contemporaines ” is to be found the matured thought of the great- 
est specialists in France. Already we have Biology, by Letourneau ; 
Linguistique, by Hovelacque ; Anthropologie, by Topinard; So- 
ciology, by Letourneau; L’Espece Humaine, by De Quatrefages ; 
and now Le Préhistorique Antiquité de l>hommé, by Gabriel de 
Mortillet, professor of prehistoric anthropology in the School of 
Anthropology, Paris. The volume contains 642 pages 12mo, and 
has sixty four figures in the text. Ina general sense, the work 
represents the views of the majority of working archeologists of 
France, and it will not be amiss, therefore, to give an epitome of 
ts contents. The introductory portion is chiefly historical, and 
Well done; the science is divided into three parts: 
1. Tertiary man, or the origin of humanity. 
2. Quaternary man, or the development of humanity. 
3, L'homme actuel, first horizon, prolegomena of history proper. 
The evidences and data of the first part are marks on bones, 
crushed bones, pierced and engraved bones, human remains, evi- 
dences of fire, flaked flint, with closing chapters on the fossil apes. 
€ second era is divided into different epochs, as follows: 
Chelléen, Moustérien, Solutréen and Magdalénien. 
e third part, or era, is similarly treated as the Robenhausien 
on of these partitions of archeology is treated with the finesse 
full, skilled workman and the confidence of an adept. It is pain- 
d true, however, that much hay, straw and stubble are built 
N this stately edifice that the fires of afterthought will burn out. 
i Evertheless, if we do not make first efforts and failures, we shall 
“ver Progress to second efforts and success. The following table 
iting the Tertiary and Quaternary superposition in the 
