Professor Yerkes, of the Department of Psychology at Yale, has
been " on the trail of the anthropoid apes," living in Cuba with a colony of chimpanzees, whose habits, feelings, intelli- gence and language he describes. " The care of the infant chimpanzee by its mother," we learn, " is worthy of a high level of intelligence. There is a notable combination of firm- ness, tenderness, skill and care." And we learn that the baby monkey is " much more obedient than the best of human children." This is an absorbingly interesting and original study, written in non-technical language. We can recommend Almost Human (Cape, 12s. 6d.) to every class of reader ; but apart from its popular value the book is the record of scientific studies in the psychology of primates which will one day greatly advance our knowledge of the human mind, if they have not already done so.
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