SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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[Under this hsadiftg tots =Bea such Boob BY the seek a. Law net Sass reen-o.d for rovioso in other foram] Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco. By Edward Westermarck. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. net.)—When Dr. Westerman* wrote his epoch-making Historyof Human Marriage, more than twenty years ago, he passed over the wedding rites themselves with very brief notice. It is now recognized that these ceremonies are based on the primitive belief in a grave danger attaching to physical contact between man and woman, and are designed magically to avert that danger. In the present volume Dr. Westermarck gives us a profound analytical study of the wedding customs of the Mohammedan natives of Morocco, whom be knows intimately. The subject and scientific plain speaking of the work make it unsuitable for detailed discussion in our columns, but to all serious students of anthropology and primitive ideas it most be an indispensable supplement to the author's classical work on marriage.
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