Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-26

| It is interesting to know, however, that
capacity of the Chinese, and thinks they are
quite able, by the aid of foreign drill-masters
| ard mech anics, to compete with Europe and
America in military and naval progress as
well as in commerce and manufactures.
Whether they will do so, however, is quite
another question.
ANTHRoPoLoeY AN INTRODUCTION TO TIE STUDY OF
MAN AND CIVILIZATION. BY Edward B. Ty'or,
D. c. L., F. R. S. New York: D. appleton & Co.
The study OF anthropology is new one but
it has become necessary to ths proper inter-
probation OF many other sciences. AS Mr..
Tylor observes in his preface, Much of
the difficulty of learning and teaching lies
in the scholars not seeing clearly what
leach science is and is for, what its place is
ls"a among the purposes of life. Ii he knows
something Of its early history, and how
sit arose from the simpler wants and cir
oumstances of mankind, he finds himself
better able TO lay hold Of it than when, as
too often happens, he is called upon to take
cup an abstruse subject not at the be-
"ginning but in the middle" This is very
true, and therefore the study of anthropology
is well calculated not only to explain but to
| impart an interest to other studies which
cannot but facilitate their acquisition. And
anthropology itself is full of interest. Moth
ing indeed can be more fascinating than the
exploration OF the early periods of civilization,
the Investigation of the dim dawnings of
culture, the tracing out Of primitive
habits, and ideas and beliefs, the inquiry
| into the causes of race separation and the
differentiation Of species and language. The
field is SO broad that no Textbook can do
more than suggest the salient points which
future ndependentressarchc can alone develop,
but it is full of Importance for education
generally, and it forms point of connection
with so many sciences that it cannot any
d. longer be omitted from the educational
scheme. It is unnecessary to say that Mr..
Tylor has written with his usual clearness
and accuracy, or that his work is erninenily
readable and worth having, apart from its
value as Textbook.
BREDIFs DRMosTHEXEs. Chicago: s. c. Grggs &
Co. Sacramento: ". a. y C. S. HoughtoD.
Price, So.
This is translation of work by sohol-
arly French professor. 1t contains critical
analysis of the oratory of Denosthenes, to-
gether with sketch CT his life, and extracts
from his orations, ending with a discussion
of the Trial on the Crown" AS an &C.
count of Demosthenes from the standpoint
of ripe modern scholarship the volume is inl-
portant, Though it is questionable whether
TIE study Of the classics has not already cul-
minated, and whether in the future they will
not be practically abandoned, there will no
doubt always remain limited number OF
devout worshipers of the ancients. just as
there will always remain a limited number of
transcendental philosophers. For these such
a work as Bredif 3 Demosthenes must possess
a special value, though perhaps most of them
might prefer to read it in the original. 1t
must, however, be said that the translation is
generally very well done, and that the book
generally is well got up.