schools may hope to find so much material for collateral reading and topical research as in the present volume; and the compiler and his assistants are to be congratulated upon the excellent results which they have obtained. LE PRÉHISTORIQUE, ORIGINE ET ANTIQUITÉ DE L'HOMME. Par Gabriel et Adrian de Mortillet. 3e édition entièrement refondue et mise au courant des der. nières découvertes. Un volume in-8° de 709 pages, avec 121 figures dans le texte. Paris: Schleicher Frères, 15 rue des Saints-Pères. Price, 8 francs. The present work of M. G. Mortillet is widely known in Europe as a complete and convenient manual on the origin of the human species and the first phases of its physical and moral development; and the third edition of it which now appears has been considerably augmented and brought so thoroughly up to date by the son of the author as to constitute almost a new book. The first part contains a clear and precise exposition of our present knowledge concerning the precursors of man, and the traces of his industry as discovered in the tertiary strata. Several pages are devoted to a question which is now occupying some attention, with regard to the existence, the anatomical and mental constitution of the pithecanthropos, supposed to be the intermediary link between the great anthropoid monkeys and man. The second part gives a detailed study of the first human races, their industrial development, and of their animal and vegetable environment. It furnishes an excellent portraiture of the social life of the quaternary period. The illustrations of the book, while not elegant according to the American standard, are both numerous and instructive. acy. We have two additional volumes of the Citizens' Library of Economics, Politics, and Sociology to announce. The first is by Brooks Adams, the author of the Law of Civilisation and Decay, and bears the title America's Economic SupremIts name alone is a sufficient claim to attention at the present juncture. It is Mr. Adams's theory that "most of the greatest catastrophes in history have occurred because of the instinctive effort of humanity to adjust itself to changes in the conditions of life, wrought by the movement from point to point of the international center of empire and wealth." From present indications he sees that "the seat of wealth and power is migrating westward, and may even now have entered America." If this be so, we are confronted with a mighty revolution which will move on as inexorably as any other force of nature; but it is the author's belief that if we are destined to fulfil the functions which have been fulfilled by the dominant nations of the past, the corresponding administrative machinery will be duly evolved, as well as the men fitted to put that machinery in action." (New York: The Macmillan Co. 1900. Pages, viii, 222. Price, $1.25.) The second volume in the same series, by Dr. Charles J. Bullock, Assistant Professor of Economics in Williams College, consists of three lengthy essays on The Monetary History of the United States. The first treats of the three centuries of cheap money in the United States, from wampum and barter currency to the gold and silver agitation of recent years. It reviews the entire monetary history of the United States, and endeavors to show that "all the varied currency experiments with which our people have been vexed for nearly three centuries have been, first and fundamentally, efforts to secure a cheap medium of exchange." The second and third essays treat of the paper currency of North Carolina and New Hampshire, -states which "up to the very close of the Colonial period remained sparsely settled farming communities in which manufactures and commerce were of slight importance," and which consequently offered a favorable field in which to test the author's theory. (New York: The Macmillan Company. 1900. Pages. X, 292. Price, $1.25.) The Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1898 has appeared. It contains, apart from the secretary's reports, but one monograph: that by the late Prof. E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia, on the Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North America. It takes up considerably more than one thousand pages. The report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 18981899, Vol. I., contains a vast amount of material which will be useful to educators The main subjects treated are as follows: Education in Great Britain and Ireland, Australasia, Belgium, Central Europe, Sweden, and Japan; the development of the common school in the Western States, from 1830 to 1865; the study of art and literature in schools; the organisation and methods of training in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis; American text-books on arithmetic; public education in Italy; educational training for railway service; university extension in Great Britain; Confederate text-books, 1861-1865; educational periodicals in the United States; educational directory; economic geography; Swedish gymnastics; and the future of the colored race. (Washington, Government Printing Office.) MOSLEM AND CATHOLIC CONCEPTIONS OF ANIMALS. To the Editor of The Open Court: May I be permitted to add in connexion with the remark made at page 113 of my article "The Hebrew Conception of Animals" in the February Open Court the following note? Muslim hunters and butchers have the custom called the Hallal, of pronouncing a formula of excuse (Bi 'sm 'illah !) before slaying any animal. Mr. W. Skeat in Malay Magic mentions that if a Malay takes a tiger in a pitfall, the Pawang or medicine-man has to explain to the quarry that it was not he that laid the snare but the Prophet Mohammed. The following text from the Koran clearly implies the future life of animals: "There is no kind of beast on earth nor fowl which flieth with its wings, but the same is a people like unto you; we have not omitted anything in the book of our decrees; then unto their Lord shall they return." The other day I was glad to see that Dr. Corrigan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, had approved of a catechism in which humanity to animals was taught. I believe this is the first time a Roman Catholic prelate has inculcated any such teaching, though many visionaries and saints like St. Francis made friends with animals. Here in Italy I never heard of a priest who taught humanity to animals except that (I think) the Archbishop of Palermo said he did not wish to have bull-fights. I wish Dr. Corrigan would get the Pope to " 'pronounce" on the subject. It would be good for beasts and very good for men, for as some German statistician showed, homicides are in proportion to humanity to animals. EVELYN MARTINENGO Cesaresco. SALÒ, LAGO DI Garda. Whence and Whither? An Inquiry Treats of the nature of the ego; human personality; spiritual heredity; human immortality; etc., from the standpoint of modern psychology and biology. The Gospel According to Darwin. BY DR. WOODS HUTCHINSON. Pages, xii, 241. Price, paper, 50 cents (2s. 6d.). Cloth, $1.50 (6s.). "Is one of the most thoughtful and stimulating of recent publications . . . frank, manly, and straightforward... much food for profitable meditation in its pages."-Chicago Chronicle. Açvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahâyâna. Translated for the first time from the Chinese version, by TEITARO SUZUKI. Pages, 176. Price, cloth, $1.25 (5s.). This is one of the lost sources of Buddhism. It has never been found in its original San skrit, but has been known to exist in two Chinese translations, the contents of which have never been made accessible to the Western world. This famous book has now been translated from the Chinese for the first time, by Mr. Teitaro Suzuki, a Japanese Buddhist scholar, and has been published with introduction, comments, glossary, and index. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. By DAVID HUME. Reprinted from the edition of 1777. with Hume's autobiography and a letter from Adam Smith, usually prefixed to the History of England. Frontispiece, portrait of Hume by Ramsay. Pages, 201. Price, paper, 25 cents. World's Congress Addresses. Delivered by the President, the HON. CHARLES CARROLL BONNEY, LL.D., to the World's Parliament of Religions and the Religious Denominational Congresses of 1893. Printed as a Memorial of the Significant Events of the Columbian Year. Pp., vi, 88. Price, paper, 15c (9d.). THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. CHICAGO, 324 Dearborn St. NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS SKETCHES OF TOKYO LIFE By JUKICHI INOUYE. Numerous curious illustrations from wood-blocks, Text in English. Treats of many quaint aspects of Japanese life-the story-tellers' hall, the actor and the stage, the wrestler and the ring, fortune-telling, fires and firemen, jinrikishas, dancing-girls, etc. A CANDID EXAMINATION OF THEISM By PHYSICUS (the late G. J. Romanes, M. A., LL. D., F. R. S.). This book was originally written by Romanes in 1878. It is a powerful arraignment of theism, which the young investigator felt obliged to forsake at this time on purely rational grounds, but to which he afterwards reverted when near his death. Romanes' Thoughts on Religion, his well-known posthumous work, was written to offset this book. Together they form an interesting study in individual religious development. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, 324 DEARBORN STREET REVUE INTERNATIONALE ILLUSTRÉE SCIENCES, LETTRES ET ARTS Paraît mensuellement en un volume in-8° d'au moins 128 pages. est la moins coûteuse, la mieux faite, la plus complète et la plus indépendante de toutes les revues. L'HUMANITÉ NOUVELLE traite de: Sciences mathématiques, physiques, géographiques, biologiques; Lettres, Arts, Sociologie, Economique, Politique, Philosophie, Religion. L'HUMANITÉ NOUVELLE publie des articles dus aux meilleurs auteurs de tous les pays. 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