270 Recent Literature. [March, 
nity to which Pictet and other writers have accustomed us. The 
early Aryan comes before us as a coarse and uncivilized nomad, 
unacquainted with the use of metals, and protecting himself wi 
the skins of wild beasts from the inclemencies of the climate’ 
This Aryan society was like that of the Swiss pile-dwellers 
whom, indeed, Professor Schrader believes to have been Aryat, 
drawing attention to the similarities between the results he has 
derived from his linguistic researches and the discoveries o 
archeologists in the ruins of the Swiss lake-dwellers of the stone 
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Professor Schrader’s “linguistic palæontology,” carried on, 
adds the reviewer, under the salutary control of archeology, leads 
him to the same conclusions, though by a different road, as 
fessor Penka, z. e., that Europe, not Asia, was the original home 
of the Aryan family, as first suggested by Dr. Latham. Mr. 
Sayce tells us that this theory has recently been gaining ground, 
remarking: “ We now know that it is to the European, rather 
than to the Indic languages that we must look for the truest t} 
resentation of primitive Indo-European grammar and phono se 
he argument, therefore, formerly used to support the wg , 
an Asiatic origin for the Indo-European family of speech 
now be turned against it.” ae 
Penka considers the starting point of Aryan emigration te 
been Scandinavia, the Aryan invaders of Northwestern ae 
having been a later and distant offshoot of the primitives’) 
Mr. Sayce has been attracted by Poesche’s hypothesis, ™ 
makes the Rokytno marshes the original center of the ae 
ding to s™ 
thot 
d, and where tt 
race or races who first spoke them originally dwelt. ae unt | 
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in suggesting that the birthplace of the Aryans was in rae 
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RECENT LITERATURE. his met 
MEINERT’s ANATOMY OF THE CENTIPEDE’S HEADS i of tht 
oir is fortunately written in English. It treats 1n se (5.0 
external anatomy of the parts of the head in Scolops a a conti 
spinipes Kohlr.) as most typical of the Chilopods. ‘tl always ” ; 
bution to the morphology of the myriopods it W! : 
; Syste 4: nae 
‘Caput Scolopendre. The Head of the Scolopendra and its Stem 
Fr. MEINERT. With 3 plates. Copenhagen, 1883. 4%» PP 11: 
