BOOK NOTES.
Any book mentioned in this department can be obtained through the Pub-
lisher of the QUARTERLY.
PRIMITIVE INDUSTRY: or Illustrations of the Handiwork in
Stone, Bone
and Clay of the Native Races of the
Northern Atlantic Seaboard of Amer-
ica. By Charles C. Abbott, M.D. Pp. 560.
Salem, Mass.: Geo. A. Bates.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.,
1881.
Taken all together, Dr. Abbott's work on
Primitive Industry is the most
important single contribution yet made
to the subject of American archaeol-
ogy. The illustrations are numerous, and
drawn from the whole range of
specimens in the Peabody Archaeological
Museum at Cambridge, Mass.
The world is specially indebted to Dr.
Abbott for the discovery of palaeo-
lithic implements in the gravel deposits
upon which the city of Trenton,
N. J., is built-a discovery which at
once connects the archaeology of Amer-
ica with the most ancient relics of man
in the Old World. It is in this
volume that the full account of these
discoveries is detailed, occupying the
last ninety pages, and containing a
chapter by Professor Lewis, of the Penn-
sylvania Geological Survey, giving the
evidence that this gravel is of glacial
origin, thus proving the existence of
man in America before the close of the
glacial period. The book should, be
read by every student of archaeology.
THE MOUND BUILDERS: Being an account of
a remarkable people that
once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio
and Mississippi, together with an
investigation into the archaeology of
Butler county, O. By J. P. MacLean.
Illustrated with over one hundred
figures. Pp. 233. Cincinnati: Robert
Clarke & Co., 1887.
This inexpensive volume has for some
time been the best manual avail-
able to assist in the study of the
earthworks of Ohio, and must remain such
for some time, until the results of
present investigations are much more
fully systematized and thought out. To
the archaeology of Butler county
eighty pages are devoted.
NEW YORK: The Planting and the Growth of
the Empire State. By Ellis
H. Roberts. (American Commonwealths). 2
Vols. Boston: Houghton, Mif-
flin & Co., 1887.
The want of a history of the Empire
State has long been felt, and this
want has at last been supplied. Within
these two volumes the author has
compressed the chief matters of interest
and importance pertaining to the
history of the first State of the Union.
By following the normal division of
its history into periods, Mr. Roberts
has been enabled, and has well utilized
his opportunity, to trace the growth of
the State from its infancy, with
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