efore and we
trust will never again be guilty of such an indiscretion,--we understand
is coming to New-York to lecture upon Ethnology. He has the "gift" of
talking, and is said to have been popular as a demonstrator in anatomy;
but we think it will be best for him to remain a while longer in
England; the sham science of which his last book is a specimen is no
longer, we believe, _profitable_ in this country. The last _Princeton
Review_ says of _The Races of Men_:

"This book is fairly beneath argument or criticism. It is a
curious medley of vanity, ignorance, malice, and fanaticism. At
first it provoked our indignation, by the boldness and
effrontery of its pretensions; but their very extravagance soon
began to render them comical. It claims to originate views
which are to overturn 'long received doctrines, national
prejudices, stereotyped delusions,' &c., while any tolerable
scholar in this department is perfectly familiar with them all
in the works of Virey, Courtet, Bory de St. Vincent, Edwards,
La Marck, Quetelet, &c. It has not the slightest claim to
originality, except for the ridiculous ingenuity, with which it
carries out the more cautious follies of these infidel
philosophers, into the most glaring absurdities; and sets their
ingenious physiological speculations, in broad contradiction to
the most authentic and unquestioned truths of history. We
certainly should not have noticed this thing at all, but for
two reasons. In the first place, this subject is now rendered
so interesting by the important bearings of modern ethnological
researches, that some of our readers might be cheated by the
mere title, and by newspaper puffs, out of the market price for
the book; and in the second place, we wish to express our
surprise and lift up our remonstrance against such issues from
a quarter so respectable as that which has given this reprint
to the American public. Whatever may be the social or
scientific standing of any influential publishing house, we
must say, that in our judgment they merit a deliberate rebuke
from the true science of the country, for reprinting so crude
and wretched a performance, to say nothing of the low malignity
which it vents against the Christian sentiment and enterprise
of an age like the present,--and even against men, who stand in
the fr