15 JUNE 1895, Page 22

Woman's Share in Primitive Culture. By Otis Tufton Mason, A.M.

(Macmillan and Co.)—Professor. Mason traces with great ingenuity the development of the arts of human life through woman's work. To a certain extent he is working in the dark and by conjecture. But much may be learnt from the analogy of savage life. There are other witnesses too, which, if closely cross- examined, will yield instructive testimony. Food, clothing, whether from vegetable products or from animal, pottery, art, language, religion, all suggest various provinces in which woman has contributed to the uses and ornaments of life. A most ingenious and interesting volume this.