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THE EARLY HISTORY OF MAN.
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"cause hair is unnecessary with a "very dark akin, partly because "hair and clothing harbour insect! "carriers of infectious diseases, "from which it is easy to protect! "the nude and hairless body. The "Mongolian races, although partly ["Man Rises to Parnassus" by migrating into the coldest regions Henry Fairfield Osborn Prince-of the earth, have never acquired ton University Press 18/6 nett].
Prof. Osborn is so well known to students of Early Man that any book published by him on this or kindred subject will be eagerly read.
BUFFALO BILL.
HIS GRAPHIC LIFE STORY.
For all the lovers of the back trail through the West-the West of the old timer, with its strong hairy covering and are as hair- characters, Its stern battles and its "less as the negroids; the same is tremendous stretches of loneliness "true of the American Indian.".
What can we say of all this?"Buffalo Bill's Life Story," should To us it has not the semblance of have a very strong appeal, It is truth. A characteristic, such as a very interesting summary, brief beard, which is the characteristic and therefores lacking in long, There are frequent changes in of one sex only of a group can todious detall,-short and gripplug. never bo a survival attributo of the
Darwin, of course, scenery, where the painted Indians was much nearer the mark when and the more savage Mormon Dan- he pointed out that it was the re-itles swoop down on the waggon-
sult of sexual selection.
In 1918 he published "Men of the Old Stone Age," a volume whole group. which gave a very satisfactory and readable account of what had then been discovered of Chellean Mousterian and Azilian man. The
If it was of such protective value publication of that volume was all what should we say of the Es- the more satisfactory because the quimau? He hasn't the sign of a study of early man really involves hair: yet surely he needs a beard a knowledge of a great many sub-
more than any Alpine hunter! jects geology, anatomy, art, In the human body the parts archæology, zoology, and a host of where hair most survives in both others. One of the most import-sexes, under the arm-pits and at ant of these is a knowledge of the the crutch, are the least in need of mammals contemporaneous with early man, some of which he hunt-Protection by warmth. Indeed, as good an argument could be offered ed. Frof. Ceborn is probably our to prove that the survival of hair greatest living authority on these in these parts was due to the The present volume is a kind of machinations of some evil-minded aupplement to the volume of 1918. Ahriman who wished to provide a Since that date Mr. Reid Moir and convenient habitation for malig- others have done much to estab-nant parasites..
HILLS OF BLUE.
H
train. Born in Feb. 26, 1846 in Iowa, Buffalo at an extremely early age showed great inclination for the wild, wide open spaces. What with waggon-train exploits, horag riding over long, tireless journeys, exciting tussles with Indians, fur trading, and numerous other just as fine happenings, Buffalo romps through one exelting incident to another, holding the intersst of the Under the reader throughout. command of General Carr in expedition after the blood of the savages, a few lines are quoted be-
low:-
an
"While we were in the sandhills; acouting the country, the Pawnee Indians brought into the camp some very large bones, which the pro- Burgeons of the expedition
lish a sound claim for the appear- ance of man in the Tertiary period. Flint implements in the Red Crag have indicated the existence of 'Foxhali' man at Ipswich. There are even earlier indications in the Implements found in the sub-red Crag of Bramford. The earlier This book, described as a pic part of Prof. Osborn's book gives ture-roll of Chinese history, is de- a very interesting account of these dicated to China to his conception early findings and the conclusions of which the author is evidently at which may be drawn from them. tached.
The next part deals with the de- The learned and sinelogues are they were so swift and strong that velopment of
our knowledge of warned off in a preface which ex-they could run by the side of a Mousterian man and his artistic platna the object of the work as buffalo, and, taking the animal in workmanship in the caves
of the emphasising of the human in one arm, could tear off a leg and France and northern Spain. terest, of the colourful beauty and eat it as they ran. Burial seems to have begun with ethical significance of that immense him. And the introduction of drama, the history of Chinese cul-denied the existence of a burial was fortunate for the {ture."
By A. E. Grantham Methuen & Co.nounced to be the thigh bone of a human being. The Indians said 26/- nett
that the bones were those of a race of people who long ago had lived in that country. They said these people were three times the size of a man of the present day, that
"These giants, said the Indians, Grent. Spirit. When they heard the than- der and saw the lighting, they laughed and declared that they were greater than either. This so displeased the Great Spirit that he caused a deluge. The water rose higher and higher and drove these (Continued on next Column.)
modern anthropologist. Prior to Human interest, colourfulness, the practice of it few skeletons are and moral tone are qualities dear found. Prof. Osborn suggests that to most picture directors and this the practice may have been due to work of six hundred largo pages is the mystery and awe of cave life. a close translation into the medium In the cave, at all events, are left of words of the ordinary historical to us the traces of his wonderful movie. One only wonders how artistic faculty. Perhaps it, too, many of a
movie audience, "the was the tangible objectification of general reader," to whom the book his mystery and magic: ་ ་ is" addressed, are prepared to pay
Prof. Osborn next paeses on to 25/- for a pleasure which can be space" page 311 "the suspicion an interesting account of neolithic obtained more cheaply and less arises that the wily crocodile had more to do with those tears than man, the builder of the cromlechs, laboriously otherwise. dolmens, and tumul before which
"The colourful comprehensive-genuine grief" page 367, "The we now stand in awe at Carnac, ness characteristic of Chinese world-Empire bes kept on buzzing Locmariaquer, Stonehenge, and civilisation is presented in a style in Kublai Khan's bonnet" page Avebury. By this time agriculture reminiscent of Macaulay in his 405, "his olfactory organs for had been introduced. Man had had less inspired moments. There is scenting the winner sharpened by to find another means besides the no attempt at detachment, critic many tribulations" page 549. chase to satisfy his dolly wants. ism, or definition.
And the moral-about turn, keep With agriculture came the worship
A sea of words bears us on with to the straight path, and beware of the sun and the study of the the inevitability of a film, star of machines, metals, and core tures, then, sun temples and their ring, of all people, the Manchus, mines. The author describes the artistic designa, cornfields? Prof, supported by subsidiary Sungs and Emperor as essential to China as
calendar. Were these great struc-
SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word' puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in Ro servoirs on June 1, 1928:- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
Tytam
Tytam Byewash
Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk.... Wong Nel Chung
Fokfulum
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1928 The
2' 0"B
L 10" 7"B:
9' 4"B (Note: B. denotes "Balow Overflow": A. denotes "Above Overflow: L. des. notes "Level with Overflow."1
Storage in millions and Decimals of gallons.
Tytam Tytam Byowash
1927
1928
884.80
884.80
18.52
22.87.
Tytam Intermediate
195,00 1,410,00 1,171.15
195.00
28.04 20.34
Tytam Tuk Wong Nai Chung
Osborn takes this view, and we are fangs with Jenghis Khan and his the queen bee to the hive, as the proud giants from the lowlands to Pokfulum
harmony,
in
He
The
69.76 06.00
2,103,24 1,870,5€
Total ....!! Consumption of water in
23.1
17.8
more than half inclined to follow broad cast as chief villains, with keystone to the whole arch. him. But we must remember that enuchs (when the author detests) ends his book with the Manchus at the hilla and thus to the moun there is at present in England aand concubines in groups of 5,000 the summit of their power towards tains. At last even the mountains
cimals of gallons during the month of strong and vocal school entirely for local colour, and that elaborate the end of the eighteenth century, were submerged and the mammoth and Hill District in millions the City
"After the flood subsided, tho May. liar, Marco Polo, to add a touch from which point he looks forward men were drowned.
1927 1928 to another dynasty pursuing the opposed to this view.
Consumption
296.70 238.30 The volume closes up with a dis.of familiarity and verisimilitude.
There are the usual captions: goal of "a satisfied, self-sufficient Great Spirit came to the conclusion cuasion on the probable centre of
per day................... origin of the human race, and the "this life... ended in what may China, not self-centred as is often that he had made men too large and Estimated population 411.920 422.240
the his mistake by creating a race of
Constant Supply in all Rider. Main possible lines of their distribution. be proved the greatest adventure assumed, but serenely cradled in powerful. He therefore corrected Consumption per head
In this Prof. Osborn follows the land triumph of all, in death" page the vast
Intermittent supply in all Rider. suggestions of Prof. Matthew in 76, "So poor little golden Lily-feet Tao of the Universe, she alone of the size and strength of the men of Districts during May, 1927.
die-which seems rather all nations had understood from the the present day. This is the rea-
son, the Indians told us, that the Main Districts during May, 1028. that interesting volume called had to
KOWLOON WATER WORKS · an excess of virtue" page 204, beginning."
LEVELL "Climate and Evolution."
It is strange how self-styled lov man of modern times is small and
1927 1928 Of course there is plenty which "His body cut into a thousand
.0' 1"B might be criticised in Prof. pletes flung to the market mob.ers of China have all so little sym- not like the giants of old. Osborn's volum. Any book which was devoured by it. Barbarlention pathy with its living aspirations story has been handed down among Kowloon Reservoir had evidently proceeded and so little share in its artistic the Pawnees for generations, but Shek Lai Pal Resor
voir
79′′B 2' 6" attempts to cover the various (sic)
what is its origin no man can say." gifts.
Reception Reservoir -H., R. B. After exciting struggles and stages of man from 'Foxhall' to the
Storage of millions and decimals developed Sandwich Islander, in
fights with both ruffians and In
of gallons,
1927 1928 230 pages must leave itself open to
["Red Lily and Chinese Jade," by dians, the tale enda thus:-
Kowloon Reservoir 162.50 351.63 criticism for sins of omission and
Louise Jordan Miln, Hodder "I have now come to the end of Shek Lai Pai Reservoir 71.50 108,02 and Stoughton:] commission. There is more than
my story. It is a story of "The Reception Reservoir
33.15 one piece of scientific criticism Mke
Another interesting book by this West that Was," a West that is
Total "THE CHINA MAIL," Generalments in turn throw all the old
well known author. the following:-The new environ-
It gives us gone for ever. The Indian makes Consumption of water in Kowloon rather an unusual picture of life a good citizen, a good farmer, and in millions and decimals of gallons "adaptations out of balance and
in China town, as seen by a Scottish a good soldier. He lan real during the month of May.
1027 1928 physician. And if the tragedies | American, and all those of us who
87.08 Consumption. ******
107.16 are dwelt on over long, we have a have come to share with him the Estimated population 100.240 185.290 few of the lighter passages to comgreat land that was his heritage Consumption per head
17.5 por day pensate, Or a different type, and should do their share towards
Full Supply in all districts during not so good as the famous "In a seeing that he is dealt with fairly, May 1927 and 1928, Shantung Garden," the story pre- and that his rights and liberties sents a side of life about which are never infringed by the schem-show that the quality of the water is one does not ordinarily read... ing politician or the short-sighted
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