(1) Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, Keimes- und Stammesgeschichte (2) Der Mensch: sein Ursprung und seine Entwicklung

Abstract

(1)BOTH these books are popular treatises dis L' cussing “man's place in nature” (to use the title of their English prototype), his origin, and development. They cover practically the same ground, and both aim at presenting the results of highly technical biological investigations in a form that will be intelligible to the educated layman. Nevertheless there is a marked contrast between them, one thai in a measure reflects the influence of the difference in the attitude of the educated public towards the problems of evolution a/.d the descent of man thirty-seven years ago and now. One of them is a weapon, forged in times of struggle, for the purpose of carrying offensive operations into the camp of those who were using every influence that casuistry and sentimentality could arouse to discredit Darwin and all his works. The other was written in more peaceful circumstances, long after such foolish animosities were buried, as one of the innumerable series of tributes which every country and class united in paying to Darwin's memory, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of “The Origin of Species,” two years ago.

(1) Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, Keimes- und Stammesgeschichte.

By Prof. E. Haeckel. Sechste Auflage. Erster Teil, Keimesgeschichte des Menschen. Pp. xxviii + 432 + xvi plates. Zweiter Teil, Stammesgeschichte des Menschen. Pp. x + (433“992) + (xvii“xxx) plates. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1910.)

(2) Der Mensch: sein Ursprung und seine Entwicklung.

By Prof. W. Leche. (Nach der zweiten schwedischen Auflage.) Pp. viii + 375. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1911.) Price 7.50 marks.