Our Temperaments. By Alexander Stewart. (Crosby Lockwood, and Co.)—Mr. Stewart
thinks that men might be more exactly classified by their temperaments. The temperaments are four, but these, as the author allows, seldom occur in their pure state. His contention, as we understand it, is that the four chief mixtures include most individuals of the human species. But does be mean the Caucasian only ? What becomes of colour of eye and hair when we come to the Semitic, and still more to the negro race ? There is a good deal of interesting reading in the book, the author having carefully studied what has been written and observed in anthropology ; but we must own that we are still inclined to the opinion of an eminent surgeon,—" Whoever will set himself the task of attempting to classify a given number of individuals according to their tempera- ments will, I think, soon find himself baffled."
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