Two books which have stood too long upon our shelves,
and which, we mast now dismiss with a notice quite inadequate to their merits and importance, are Prehistoric Europe, a Geological Sketch, by James Geikie, LL.D. (Stanford) ; and Early Man in Britain, by W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—It will be seen that the one deals comprehensively with the whole subject of man in pre- historic times, so far as evidences of his existence in Europe are con- cerned; and that the second is generally limited to the special field of his appearance in this country (though the subject has ramifica- tions which reach to other countries), a field which Mr. Boyd Dawkins has made peculiarly his own, by his well-known "Cave- hunting." A student cannot do better than go from the first to the second. Both will amply repay his labour. Nor will this labour be other than of the most interesting kind. It holds out, too, to the student the fascinating hope of making discoveries of his own. We may commend these books without reserve to the reader.
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