Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia. By Robert Munro, M.A. (Blackwood and
Sons.)—Dr. Munro attended a congress of anthro- pologists and archeologists held at Sarajevo in 1894. In this volume he has given an account of its proceedings, and has also. taken occasion to give sketches of the country and its people. Naturally there is s tinge of the archeological in his social sketches. He and his fellow-travellers are entertained, for in- stance, at dinner at Sarajevo, and have to manage without knives. Why was this implement wanting ? Not from barbarism, but from the conservative habits of Mahommedanism. There were no knives used at meals in Arabia in the seventh century ; none are used by the inheritors of the Arabian faith in the nineteenth. Some innovations, however, are welcomed, for the party was regaled with abundance of champagne. There are some agreeable descriptions of buildings and scenery, not a few lively sketches of manners, while the contributions to archeology, chiefly con- cerning prehistoric man, are of unquestionable value.
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