1884.] 
believe I “dreamed it,” and here it is. The four or five other 
verses Lam unable now to recall: 
“ The past has been a fleeting shadow, 
ike mist on the mountain side 
But through the future before me 
lowing visions swiftly glide!” 
Anthropology. 553 
nless I came across this in some book or newspaper, I shall 
always believe that I composed it in my dream. Next!—A., 7884. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. ' 
Tue NORTHERN FRONTIER oF Cunina. —When the Mongols first 
\epowerful under Chinghis Khan, Eastern and Central Asia 
was divided into four considerable empires: 1. The Kin or Golden 
Tartars occupied the six northern provinces of China, they were 
ancestors of the Manchus ; 2. Central Asia was subject to the 
empire of the Kara Khitai; 3. The Sung dynasty, controlling 
; China, was a purely Chinese empire; 4. The fourth em- 
i the subject of Part vr in a series of papers on the northern front- 
3gs of China, by H. H. Howorth, published in the Journal of 
the Royal Asiatic Society. . 
of the earth is at present regarded from two points of view. 
The first is 
“ee grand divisions. On the contrary, in the savage state, 
Sie oe of the facilities at our disposal, men have effected migra- 
a 
_ &essfully 
“any centers of human origin as there are races of men. 
Tae oe or Ecyprian Supan.—Professor A. H. Keane E 
its inhop ature of Jan. 24, a paper on the Egyptian Sudan an 
i p abitar its, an abstract of which is given below. Sudan is the 
Wie ent of Nigritia, Negroland. [Its sections are: (1) 
| u 
1882 Were: € provinces formed out of this territory in 
Wer Soin ) 
Cemar Magee: Kordofan, Bahrel-Ghazal and Dongola, with capital, ae 
Etwa) ny Khart , Equator (Hat-el- 
la 9. Capital Kha sai Berber, Fashoda and the Equ ( 
Sess z “Taka, Suakin and Massowah, with capital, Massowah. 
» Berbera and Harrar, with capital, Harrar. 
Professor Oris T. Mason, 1305 Q street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
