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the Todas enabled him to examine the people as to their customs, mode of 
marriage, polyandry, and slaughter of their female children. On all these 
subjects has he dealt at considerable length, and he has, at the end of the 
volume, given such a summary of the language as he was enabled to pick 
up in his intercourse with them. Further, he has given us a great number 
of illustrations ; and these have a peculiar value, for they are not of the 
ordinary type, in which the reader is left to depend upon the love of truth 
which the artist possesses ; on the contrary, they are almost all large pho- 
tographs, done by the autotype process ; and hence they convey, in a veri- 
table style, the general character of the people, of their habits, and'the mode 
of dress that is employed. There are two faults, one is the introduction of 
phrenology, a science which is absolutely without foundation, and the 
other is the somewhat loose style which the author follows. But when we 
remember how desultorily the book has been written, and that the author 
dates his preface from Faizebad, we' have excuses amply sufficient for the 
second of these errors. We are confident that the book would have com- 
manded a very large circulation had a better title been devised for it. 
MAN AND APES.* 
T HE work now issued is little more than the reprint of certain papers 
which our readers will remember were published in these pages some 
time ago. In its complete form the book is an admirable essay on the 
anatomy of apes and half-apes, and it is so completely illustrated by nearly 
sixty well-executed figures of the various forms, besides a few representa- 
tives of the skeleton of man and the quadrumana, that it forms an excellent 
manual for the zoologist. But, besides this, it has an especial interest from 
the fact that it deals with that question which has been so long a matter of 
dispute between Mr. Mivart on the one side and Professor Huxley and Mr. 
Darwin on the other. We referto the question, Was man developed by agradual 
process from the apes, or was he not ? It appears to us that Mr. Mivart 
takes the latter view, while admitting the possibility of evolution. He 
seems to regard man’s brain as something completely apart from anything 
in the Quadrumana. In fact, it possesses a soul, and the monkey’s does not. 
At least so we read Mr. Mivart’s book. If it be so, if such be his view, then 
most assuredly we join issue with him. For strange as it may seem, we 
see no reason to deny a soul to the monkey or the gorilla, if we endow the 
bosjesman with such an immaterial presence. In any case, whatever view 
the reader may take, he is sure to be much pleased with Mr. Mivart’s book, 
which is on the ante-Darwinian side, a book completely sui generis , and 
without a fault in point either of style or fact. 
* “ Man and Apes. An Exposition of the Structural Resemblances and Dif- 
ferences bearing upon Questions of Affinity and Origin.” By St. George 
Mivart, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., Lecturer on Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 
St. Mary’s Hospital. London : Robert Hardwicke, 1873. 
