Notices of Boohs. 
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commenced an examination of the work, expecting a report on 
the results obtained by deep-sea dredging. But to our surprise, 
we found that the contents were poetry. We were, therefore, 
about to lay the book aside, leaving it for more experienced and 
competent judges to pronounce on its merits, when we acci- 
dentally came upon a kind of appendix. In this figured a corre- 
spondence between the author and a real or imaginary friend 
rejoicing in the uncouth name of “ Phineas Phillgro.” This 
latter worthy asks for the privilege of annexing to the book an 
effusion of his own, and unfortunately receives Mr. Greaves’s 
consent. The addition thus made is a piece of wretched 
doggrel, expounding the loathsome dodtrine known by the 
scarcely less loathsome name of “ miscegenation.” Mr. 
Phillgro thinks that the Aryan race in America is decaying, and 
proposes its resuscitation with the “ rich and luscious blood 
of the tropics.” Why not go a step further ? Is it not 
just possible that the blood of the gorilla or the chimpanzee 
might prove richer and more luscious still ? But, in all sober 
sadness, if any part of the Aryan race, whether in America or 
Europe, is degenerating, is it not better to attempt its restoration, 
not by unions which it is revolting to contemplate, but by the 
removal of the causes which have led to such degeneracy? 
These causes are many, and well known. An intermixture of 
different branches of the Aryan race may have had beneficial 
results. A fusion of different “ races ” — if this be the legitimate 
term — has proved disastrous wherever tried. What strain, for 
instance, is viler than the half-breeds of Macao ? We should 
seriously advise Mr. Greaves, if he wishes his poems to circulate 
in the land of his forefathers, to renounce “ Phineas Phillgro 
and all his works. 
