SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necossavily preclude subsequent review.] The aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland have always been something of an ethnological mystery. From the time of the first European settlements they held aloof, and seem to have had no communications either with the settlers or with other native tribes. Several vain attempts were made to get into touch with them, usually with tragic results, and early in the nineteenth century the tribe became extinct. Its last survivor is believed to have been a captured woman, who lived for six years in captivity and died in 1829. Mr. James P. Rowley has for many years been collecting what little information there was to be discovered about this unfortunate race, and in The Beothuchs or Red Indians (Cambridge University Press, 21s. net) he has published what must be regarded as an exhaustive account of them.
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