Man, Past and Present

Abstract

A TRUSTWORTHY and up-to-date work in a small compass on “Ethnology” in its wider sense, in which the human race should be considered in greater detail from a zoological (anthropological) rather than from a linguistic and cultural (ethnological) point of view, was a decided want in this country. And this want has been well supplied by the volume before us, with its precursor in the same series published three years ago under the title of “Ethnology.” It is, however, in our opinion, a matter for distinct regret that the author and the editor did not at first starting definitely make up their minds as to the extent to which the subject of ethnology (again using the term in its wider sense) was to figure in the series. Had this been done, a considerable amount of useless and irritating repetition might have been avoided, while the present volume would have been much more fully illustrated.

Man, Past and Present.

By A. H. Keane. “Cambridge Geographical Series.” Pp. xii + illustrated. (Cambridge University Press, 1899.)