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Frazer's friends. With a few additions, of which the most important is a long note on the language of animals, the volume is a collection of such of his essays, addresses and reviews as he wishes to preserve. They all have that fragrance and urbanity of style which distinguish the writings of our foremost anthropologist and give to them an intrinsic merit all their own. A few of them, perhaps, have hardly weathered the storms which have disturbed the anthropolo- gical sea during the last decade or so, but all of them," even the most censorious, reveal the author as one of the• kindliest of critics and as the master of a diversity of subjects, ranging from China to Peru, from the classics of Greece to the folklore of Africa.