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as well as the most sPcurPly, in the minutely calcu-
lated meeting-point at every given locality of the
latitude and the longittde. It is this minute ell-
ciliation of each, that imparts to the work undrr
nuliot itS c wspietious and most retmcrkable value.
As a Geogr.phicdl Guide, sod G iziteer, .nti Index,
ail in one, the work is really nothing less than a
boon in this age of already vastly multiplied, and
still fast multiplying knowledge of all kinds,

On the Phenomena of Ifybridity in the Genus Homo.
By Dr. Paul Broca. Edit€d by C. Carter Blake.

One Vol., pp. 88, Longman and Company.
It is wonderful what solid and valuable informa-
tion has ken here compacted togther—within lees
than one hundred pages octavo. Another work of
very considerable value has thus been added to the
list of publications now commencd, with a pro-
spect, let us hope, of fast multiplying into a sub-
stantial library, under the auspices and, more than
that, under the careful supervision and at the direct
instance of the Society of our London Anthro-
pologists. The treatise here placed within reach of
the English reading public is obviously, of course,
in no degree comparable, in the comprehensiveness
of its survey, to its immediate predecessor, that
remarkable work from the hand of Dr. Weitz,
constituting about the aptest introduction to
the science of Anthropology yet compiled,
penned, too, by one of the profoundest masters
of that science for the use of every student coming
to it purely and simply as a beginner—a work we
ourselves had the satisfaction nearly four months
ago of earnestly commending, through these
columns, to the consideration of scientific readers
generally, meaning the happily•chosen first volume
of the " Anthropologic der NaturNiiiker." It is not,
in this instance, once more to a German master
that the Publishing Committee of the Anthropo-
logical Society has directed its attention, with a
view to selecting some new work upon a specific
branch of the science (not upon the science
as a whole hut, let us repeat the words, upon a
specific branch of it), it is not, we say, to a German
writer again that the Publishing Committee of our
English Anthropological Society has turned its
regard, but to a French anthropologist as profound
in his mastery of the science 134 Dr. Broca. A
writer, moreover, upon this science whose merits
are sach, within the recognition of scientific Europe,
that his present editor, Mr. Blake, can deprecate
his own select'on by the learned President
of the Anthropological Society as editor of
Dr. Paul Broca's treatise on Hybridiry, thus
earnestly, and yet in no respect at all extravagantly :
namely, where he says in his Preface—" The
habitual methods of thought of Dr. Paul Broca ore
so exact, his style [is?] so terse, his knowledge of
the literature of anthropology so vast, and his power
of application and concentration of ideas [are] so
pawn fut, Chat a just preference might have selected
another Editor." Not so—at least so far as relates
to their appreciation of his selection as Editor of De.
broea—not so will the readers of this Eogtish
version of this little work on Hybridiry, by
the French philosopher, think when they have
come to read it, or even when they have
come to advance a little way in the reading of it :
though it is agreeable enough, in the midst of so
.ouch iutolerable self-assertion on the part of others,
to note a skilled and conecierltious cuitivator of the
science of anthropology, such as Mr. Carter Blake,
waiving has any claim of his to the honour of
being in this manner singled out from among all
his colleagues by his President. A more judicious
selection, evidently, the learned President, Dr.
James Hunt, could hardly have made than he has
made in thus choosing the " other" Secretary of the
Association to endite a treatise, within the narrow
compass of which so much of the exact thought, the
terse style, so much of the power of concentration
and the capacity for concentrated thought, so much
of that vast knowledge of anthropological literature,
noticeable in the writings of Dr. Broca, are com-
pacted together. As a searching inquiry into the
complex subject of Human Hybridity, the work,
brief though it is, we believe to be as yet unrivalled,

Popular Edition of the Speeches and Addresses
of H.I.H. the Prince Consort. One Vol.
pp. 127. John Murray.

As a memorial of our beloved and lamented
Prince nothing could well be more beautiful in its
way than this popular edition of his Speeches, in a
little green volume issued from the great publishing
house in Albermarle-street, price One Shilling.
The very colour of the brochure seems to us appro.,
priate—Lence, indeed, we have just now mentioned
it—this same popular issue of the Speeches
and Addresses of H.R.H. being in a very
especial manner calculated to " keep his memory
green" in the hearts of that Great People
who had learnt so to love him, and who
have had, during these last two years, suoh
bitter cause to lament what still appears to us his
premature disappearance. Popular—in the fullest
meaning of the phrase—the work is surely certain to
be : and it is earneselyao be hoped, both for the sake
of the departed Prince, and for that also of his
revered relict, for the sake of hie Royal
Highness and of her M±sty, that it may be so.
And for this reason—that these Speeches and Ad.
dresses, just exactly as they are here faith-
fully recorded—these Speeehes and Addresses,
just precisely as they fell from his lips
in life, verbatim et literatim, now that he
is dead, now that his lips can breathe no other
syllable, at once, to any one who reads them
thinkingly, explain and justify (both, to the
full) the Prince Consort's resplendent reputa-
tion. They explain and justify, completely
and signally, his reputation as a philosopt,ie
thinker, as a keen-eyed statesman, as an appreciator
of art, as a scientific enquirer, and, above all that,
(and how much more!) as a practical philanthropist.
Nay, more than this, it should be said
in simple justice to the nature of the
Prince, that the little work here comme-
morative of so many of Ills gentler senti-
ments and aspirations, as a sympathiser
with his "kind" generally, but in a very
particular manner as a sympathiser with the
groat multitude of the " workers" among his
fellow-creatures, indicates in the Prince's regard
far more even than his wisdom—his goodness.
It is so conspicuously thus with the whole
tenour of these Speeches and Addresses that
they may be said in a manner to underline
and emphasise the epithet distinctively applied to
H.R.H. by the Poet Laureate in those exquisite
verses, which are perhaps the masterpiece of Alfred
Tennyson—that dedication of his " Idyls of the
King" to the memory of the Prince, in which
the Poet apostrophised him as " ALBERT THE
GOOD!" As a popular memorial calculated to
perpetuate the intimate appreciation of his nobler
qualities by the English people, the cheap re-issue
of a work hitherto published only in a
costly form is beyond all the sculptured
monuments, the marble cenotaphs, the architectural
mausoleums, the porphyry sarcophagi that could
be constructed, as symbols of honour to his me-
mory, by the lavished love and grief and wealth of
a mourning nation. Tne little book is altogether
so perfect a memento of the Prince Consort, as one
who was " a Prince indeed" that it would be a
gratification to think the time may yet come and
that speedily, when a copy of it may be lying upon
the parlour table of every cottage in the land, and
upon the scant book-shelf of every town mechanic.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN has presented the Empress
of the French with two magnificent horses of the Aranjuez
race—a mixture of Arab and the Spanish breed.
A NOBLE VETERAN.—A movement has been set
on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the
honour of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.B ,
G.C.11., to commemorate his long and diOnguished ser-
vices as a soldier. It is proposed to erect the memorial in
Cheshire, in which county Combermere Abbey is situate.
Lord Combermere, who has reached the age of 84, holds the
office of Constable of the Tower of Landon, and Custos
Rotmorum of the Tower Hamlets, to which he was ap-
pointed on the death of the late Duke of Wellington.
Russia gives hostages to the future fortune of
Denmark in the announcement of the heir to the
Czar's throne having proposed for the hand of Princess
Maria Dagmar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales.
The bridegroom comes of age on the 20th next September,
being four years above that of his intended bride. The
Danish Princess is to visit St. Petersburg in the autumn,
and conform to the orthodox Fastern Church, according to
the law of the gnvire,—hyttsr from