Living Rates of Mankind. Vol. I. (Hutchinson and Co. 10s.
6d. net.)—This is a new edition of a book which attracted considerable notice at its first publication, and has gained no little in interest by the additions which have been made to it. Mr. R. Lydekker writes the introduction, and other distinguished names, Sir H. Johnston, Dr. A. H. Keane, and Mr. A. H. Savage-Landor among them, appear on the title-page. To the average reader, however, it is not the theories and commentaries of the specialists, but the wonderful variety of the photographs, that will most forcibly appeal. These number between four and five hundred, and range over a very large extent of human types. Chaps. 1-5 are given to Polynesia, Melanesia, Australasia, Malaya, and the Philippines; 6-8 to Japan, Siam, China, and what we may shortly call Tartary ; 9 to Irania, Persia, Ac. ; 10-11 to India; 12 to Arabia and Western Asia ; 13 to Africa. If one seeks for contrast, one may look at the "Kangaroo Point Tasman" and the "Maori Youth" (p. '71) ; but the "Maori Girl" on p. 73 appears to be of a different type, not so unlike to the Tasmanian. We seem to see a kinship between the 0 Burmese Princess" (p. 169) and the "Japanese Beauty" (p. 143). The "Tonga Chief" on p.2 might pass muster anywhere, and so would the Samoan "Maid of the Village" after a visit to a dressmaker. The Belooch chiefs are noble-looking men ; so are the Singhalese nobles (p. 509) ; one of the Persian women (p. 257) might be Pygmalion's statue come to life; but the Bushmen on p. 355 one would not let one's dog see for fear he should lose his belief in man.
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