20 MAY 1865, Page 20

The Anthropological Treatises of Blumenbach and Bunter. By Thomas Bendy:31m,

31.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. (Longman and Co.).-.These are rather curiosities of anthropological literature than of much scientific value ;—indeed Hunter's tract, which is not by the John Hunter, has no other interest. Blamenbach's essays are, however, very amusing, and marked by a humour and common sense and con- ciseness which are positively wonderful in a German. We have also to thank the editor for prefixing the biographies of Blamenbach by Marx and Flottrens. As a whole the volume is the best in a literary point of view which the Anthropological Society has yet published, the translating and editing being thoroughly echolarlike.