equipped to illustrate the general
subject than Quatrefages. While constantly occupied upon the
anatomical and osseous phases of his subject, he was none the
less well acquainted with what literature and history had to say
concerning the pygmies.... This book ought to be in every
divinity school in which man as well as God is studied, and from
which missionaries go out to convert the human being of reality
and not the man of rhetoric and text-books."--_Boston Literary
World._

_THE BEGINNINGS OF WRITING._ By W. J. HOFFMAN, M. D. With numerous
Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

This interesting book gives a most attractive account of the
rude methods employed by primitive man for recording his deeds.
The earliest writing consists of pictographs which were traced
on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances.
Dr. Hoffman shows how the several classes of symbols used in
these records are to be interpreted, and traces the growth of
conventional signs up to syllabaries and alphabets--the two
classes of signs employed by modern peoples.

IN PREPARATION.

_THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS._ By Dr. SCHMELTZ.
_THE ZUNI._ By FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING.
_THE AZTECS._ By Mrs. ZELIA NUTTALL.

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_HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES_, from the Revolution to the
Civil War. By JOHN BACH McMASTER. To be completed in six volumes. Vols.
I, II, III, and IV now ready. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 each.

"... Prof. McMaster has told us what no other historians have
told.... The skill, the animation, the brightness, the force,
and the charm with which he arrays the facts before us are such
that we can hardly conceive of more interesting reading for an
American citizen who cares to know the nature of those causes
which have made not only him but his environment and the
opportunities life has given him what they are."--_N. Y. Times._

[Illustration: JOHN BACH McMASTER.]

"Those who can read between the lines may discover in these
pages constant evidences of care and skill and faithful labor,
of which the old-time superficial essayists, compiling library
notes on dates and striking events, had no conception; but to
the general reader the fluent narrative gives no hint of the
conscientious labors, far-reaching, world-wide, vast and yet
microscop